Lan Kim

Associate Teaching Professor of Korean

Coordinator of the Korean Language Program

308 Pond Laboratory

Education:

B.A. in English Language and Literature. Department of English Language and Literature, Chung-ang University, Seoul, Korea

M.A. in Linguistics. Department of Linguistics, Simon Fraser University, BC, Canada

Ph.D. in Linguistics. Department of Linguistics and Cognitive Science, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, USA

Biography:

I am an associate teaching professor of Korean and also the coordinator of the Korean Language Program within the department. My research interests include language acquisition, linguistics, and Korean teaching pedagogy.

Selected Publications:

Selected Presentations

2025. The Impact of eTandem Virtual Exchange on Generation Z Korean Learners. Annual Conference of the Korean Society of Bilingualism. Kyounghee University.

2025. L2 Korean Learners’ Pragmalinguistic Features. Pusan National University, Korea.

2022. With Sang-Seok Yoon. The Korean Connective -Nuntey in Request Speech Act. The First Innovative Perspectives, Methodologies, and Approaches in Korean Applied Linguistics. Penn State University.

2021. With Sang-Seok Yoon. Facilitating L2 Korean learners’ pragmatic competence: A study of making requests in Korean. The 26th AATK (American Association of Teachers of Korean) Annual Conference & Professional Development Workshop.

2021. With Hyun Soon Julie Cho-Min. Mellon Curriculum Project on First Year Korean Curriculum Development. Mellon Curriculum Design Forum. University of Chicago, IL.

2020. Making Requests in L2 Korean: 1st year Korean. The 28^th Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference (JK28). UK Satellite Workshop: Pedagogical Approaches to Japanese/Korean Linguistics. University of Central Lancashire, Preston, United Kingdom.

2019. Teaching and Learning Korean Benefactive Forms. The 22^nd Annual Conference of the National Council of Less Commonly Taught Languages. Atlanta, Georgia.

Peer-Reviewed Journals

Under review. With Hyunsoon Cho-Min, Eun Gyong Kim, and Na-Young Ryu. The eTandem paradigm in cross-linguistic development: An analysis of reciprocal language learning between Korean and English learners in higher-education contexts. Language Teaching Research.

2024. With Sang-Seok Yoon. Facilitating L2 Korean learners’ pragmatic competence: A study of making requests in Korean in power-asymmetrical situations. Korean Linguistics (published by John Benjamins). 20 (2), 127-168. John Benjamins. Link: https://benjamins.com/catalog/kl.20.2

2021. Reconsideration of Korean Benefactive Expressions in Foreign Language Teaching Contexts. The Korean Language in America. 25 (2), 87-109. Link: https://www.jstor.org/stable/48758550

2018. A Note on Aspectual Properties of Korean Idioms. Studies in Generative Grammar 28(3), 433-447. Link: https://scholar.kyobobook.co.kr/volume/detail/144317

2018. With Benjamin Bruening and Xuyen Dinh. Selection, Idioms, and the Structure of Nominal Phrases with and without Classifiers. Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics 3(1), 42. Link: https://www.glossa-journal.org/article/id/5010/

2017. With Satoshi Tomioka. Give-type Benefactive Constructions in Korean and Japanese. Journal of East Asian Linguistics 26(3), 233-257. Link: https://www.jstor.org/stable/i40211677

2015. Asymmetric Ditransitive Constructions: Evidence from Korean. Lingua 165, 28-69. Link: https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/lingua/vol/165/part/PA

Book Chapter

2026. With Na-Young Ryu and Eun Gyong Kim. Transcending educational boundaries: The impact of etandem virtual exchange among Generation Z learners of Korean In The Korean Case for Youth Korean Language Learning edited by Nicola Fraschini & Jieun Kiaer, Routledge, 94-111.