Lan Kim

Associate Teaching Professor of Korean

Coordinator of the Korean Language Program

202 Old Botany Building

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.

Peer-Reviewed Journals

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

Under revision. With Na-Young Ryu and Eun Gyong Kim. Transcending educational boundaries: The impact of eTandem Virtual Exchange among generation Z learners of Korean.