AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF TEACHERS OF KOREAN NEWSLETTER June 14, 2007 No. 15 Editor: Susan Strauss, Department of Applied Linguistics, Penn State University, 305 Sparks Bldg. State College, PA 16802. E-mail: [email protected]PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE President’s Message Greetings, I am truly honored to have this opportunity to serve as the fifth President of the American Association of Teachers of Korean (AATK). I feel thankful to the board members who placed confidence in me, especially at a time when our organization is facing this second phase of growth as well as the new challenges associated with such growth. Since its inauguration in 1994, the AATK has steadily expanded into a large and strong professional organization, with over 220 members. Last year, the AATK marked the 11 th anniversary of its foundation with the annual meeting, jointly hosted by Princeton and Rutgers Universities. To Dr. Gwee-Sook Kim of Princeton University, we owe the great success of last year’s professional development workshop that featured a wide range of hands-on panels on “Creating Engaging Input.” The conference was attended by 90 participants, and we welcomed 32 new members. Continuous and concerted efforts have been made to ensure and improve the quality and relevance of the presentations as well as the involvement of participants through collecting and incorporating audience feedback. We have also implemented a more rigorous review process for the conference program and the publication of the proceedings. For the 12 th Annual Conference to be held this year at the University of Chicago, 80% of the workshop proposals and more than 20% of the conference abstracts were turned down through anonymous reviews. I am both happy (for the strength of our organization) and embarrassed (about my personal failure) to confess that my own proposal was rejected. The AATK has established itself as a strong academic organization, representing the teachers of Korean in the U.S. and Canada and providing regular forums for professional networking and the exchange of innovative ideas and tested experiences. Moreover, the annual meeting is especially valuable for members who mostly teach in small programs in isolation from other Korean teachers. I am privileged to serve the AATK with the following experienced and dedicated officers. Professor Hyo Sang Lee of Indiana University
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AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF TEACHERS OF KOREAN
NEWSLETTER
June 14, 2007 No. 15
Editor: Susan Strauss, Department of Applied Linguistics, Penn State University, 305 Sparks Bldg.State College, PA 16802. E-mail: [email protected]
PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE
President’s Message
Greetings,
I am truly honored to have this opportunity toserve as the fifth President of the AmericanAssociation of Teachers of Korean (AATK). I feelthankful to the board members who placedconfidence in me, especially at a time when ourorganization is facing this second phase ofgrowth as well as the new challenges associatedwith such growth. Since its inauguration in 1994,the AATK has steadily expanded into a large andstrong professional organization, with over 220members. Last year, the AATK marked the 11th
anniversary of its foundation with the annualmeeting, jointly hosted by Princeton and RutgersUniversities. To Dr. Gwee-Sook Kim of PrincetonUniversity, we owe the great success of lastyear’s professional development workshop thatfeatured a wide range of hands-on panels on“Creating Engaging Input.” The conference wasattended by 90 participants, and we welcomed32 new members.
Continuous and concerted efforts have beenmade to ensure and improve the quality and
relevance of the presentations as well as theinvolvement of participants through collectingand incorporating audience feedback. We havealso implemented a more rigorous reviewprocess for the conference program and thepublication of the proceedings. For the 12th
Annual Conference to be held this year at theUniversity of Chicago, 80% of the workshopproposals and more than 20% of the conferenceabstracts were turned down through anonymousreviews. I am both happy (for the strength of ourorganization) and embarrassed (about mypersonal failure) to confess that my ownproposal was rejected. The AATK hasestablished itself as a strong academicorganization, representing the teachers ofKorean in the U.S. and Canada and providingregular forums for professional networking andthe exchange of innovative ideas and testedexperiences. Moreover, the annual meeting isespecially valuable for members who mostlyteach in small programs in isolation from otherKorean teachers.
I am privileged to serve the AATK with thefollowing experienced and dedicated officers.Professor Hyo Sang Lee of Indiana University
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will serve as Executive Secretary. Asafunctional linguist, he is interested in discourse-pragmatics, linguistic typology and languageuniversals. He takes the view that ourcommunicative needs and strategies shapegrammar, and that grammar is the fossilizatonor routinization of recurrent communicativehabits and patterns. As a teacher of Korean, hepursues active learning through contextualizedinstruction. Students are expected to learnfrom contextualized dialogues in class ratherthan through the instructor’s grammarexplanations from the outset. Recently he hasbeen intrigued by the infinite number ofpossibilities of teaching and learning throughweb-based technologies, and is implementinghis belief that current web and multimediatechnology can enhance the learners'opportunities and place learners in contact withthe target language in ways that are moreinteresting and contextualized than what isoffered through textbooks alone.Our Treasurer is Professor Hae-Young Kim ofDuke University. Not only did she successfullyhost the 9th AATK Conference in 2004, but shehas been one of the most active members ofour organization. She is interested indeveloping teaching materials for input-basedinst ruct ion of grammar, teachingsociolinguistics with authentic materials, andintegrating culture into language instruction.Her research has focused on tense and aspectmorphology in L1 and L2 Korean, relativeclause construction in L2 Korean, Korean as aheritage language, and classroom discourse incontent-based language classes. She wouldlike to see the AATK continue to develop as adynamic professional community thatcontributes to the enhancement of theacademic standing of teaching Korean inhigher education.
Professor Susan Strauss of Penn StateUniversity is our Newsletter Editor &Webmaster. Professor Strauss originallybecame interested in Korean grammar, culture,
and pragmatics from the point of view ofcomparison and contrast with Japanese. Themore she investigated Korean, the deeper hercommitment grew to the study and analysis ofthe language. One of her academic goals is topublish a comprehensive discourse-functional-cognitive reference grammar of Korean forteachers, students, and discourse analysts.She has been the project director of Korean forCALPER (Center for Advanced LanguageProficiency Education and Research) at PennState and has published a number of articleson Korean grammar, focusing predominantlyon the intricate interrelationships betweenlanguage, cognition, and culture. She beganattending AATK during the early years and isdelighted to be back and part of such asupportive, constructive, and professionalacademic community dedicated to the studyand teaching of Korean.
During our three-year service, we will set ourpriorities along the following lines. First of all,we will strengthen the AATK infra-structure byexpanding the membership base andenhancing our website. We believe that theAATK will be a truly representativeorganization for Korean teachers in NorthAmerica through the widest coverage ofKorean programs and through activeparticipation by the members. The followingboard members: Andrew Byon, Hangtae Cho,Sahie Kang, Mimi Mijeong Kim, Minsook Kim,and Mark Peterson have already formed acommittee to identify some of the problemsthat we currently face. These include: lack ofparticipation by teachers in some largeracademic programs, discontinuation ofparticipation by founding members, relativelylow subscriptions from the Defense LanguageInstitute (only about 30 Korean instructors outof 200 (15%) are AATK members), and theproper articulation of benefits for the members.The committee has already begun to work onsolutions to these identified concerns. Asecond committee has begun working on
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issues related to website enhancement, underthe leadership of our NewsletterEditor/Webmaster, Susan Strauss, ExecutiveSecretary, Hyo Sang Lee and two boardmembers, Kijoo Ko and Byoung-Joon Lim. Sofar, we have improved the mechanics for web-based correspondences and are reactivatingthe bulletin boards. Projects for the immediatefuture include: (1) creating a webpage forKorean language textbooks, annotated withdescriptions of individual textbooks and a list ofinstitutions that use them, together with ratingsand links to publishers, (2) cataloguing Korea-related articles, including links to downloadableabstracts and/or PDF files, similar to those inlibrary databases, (3) posting a survey of studyabroad programs, (4) providing a list ofmaterials available from the Korea Foundation,and (5) building a clearing house/bulletin boardof downloadable teaching materials.
Second, we plan to set a firm ground forcooperating with other organizations in andoutside the U.S. to better achieve our commongoals of promoting and enhancing theeducation of Korean language and culture. Forinstance, the AATK will support the interestsand agenda of elementary and secondaryschool teachers to establish and expandKorean curricula in public school education inthe U.S. This will be done primarily throughjoint participation in the activities of theinfluential national organization, ACTFL(American Council of Teachers of ForeignLanguage) with secondary school teachers.Through our active participation, we hope toincrease the visibility and profile of Korean — aprofile that has been very low compared toother languages in ACTFL, which will lead to apositive impact on the perception of Koreanand high-stakes policy decisions. The AATKalso plans to strengthen ties with organizationselsewhere. For example, we would like to seeincreased interactions between the AATK andthe International Association for KoreanLanguage Education (IAKLE). We have invited
an IAKLE representative to our annual meetingas part of a formal exchange. The IAKLErepresentative, will, when needed, provide apanel that could inform our members of currentdevelopments made in Korea. In response toan often-repeated request from our members,one of the themes of this year’s workshop hasbeen chosen as “Testing and Assessment,”intended to demonstrate ways to develop,evaluate and adapt placement and proficiencytests. We are very excited that sevenrepresentatives from major Korean programs inKorea have accepted our invitation this year.Another interesting panel to be noted this yearis on corpus analysis: Professors Hung-gyuKim, Beom-mo Kang, and Jungha Hong ofKorea University will present on the 21st
Century Sejong Corpora, Professor Sung-OckSohn of UCLA is invited to share her researchon “Corpora and their uses in Korean languageresearch and pedagogy,” and Professor SusanStrauss, of Penn State, will provide a criticalreview of corpus-based work and suggestways to improve its application to linguisticresearch and language teaching. We hope thatthese presentations will be the first step indeveloping concrete ways to link corpusprojects in Korea with actual teaching andresearch to be carried out by our members.
Generous financial support by the KoreaFoundation has been essential to theestablishment and development of the AATK.The annual meetings have depended on theFoundation’s grants for major expenses, evenin cases where the hosting institutions mademany valuable contributions. Without the AATKmeeting and the financial support provided bythe Korea Foundation, some of us who do nothold regular positions at our institutions wouldmiss these opportunities for professionaldevelopment — and this would have direeffects on the quality of Korean teaching.Given that many of those positions will notlikely be upgraded to a regular ranking in thenear future, the Foundation’s continued
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support will be crucial to making the on-goingactivities and the future success of the AATKpossible.
The 2007 meeting, the 12th Annual Workshopand Conference, will be held at the Universityof Chicago from June 14th to the 16th. TheChicago Korean program, led by ProfessorKyeong-Hee Choi (Korean Literature), and Drs.Jung-Hyuck Lee and Hi-Sun Kim (KoreanLanguage), is emerging as one of theintellectual centers of Korean studies in theU.S. Having a meeting at such a prominentlocation will encourage and inspire theparticipants in their endeavors to grow strongerand more dynamic programs. I am very happyto report that, now with a list of enthusiasticvolunteer institutions lined up for the next fiveyears or so, we have the luxury of being able tochoose future conference venues with ageographical balance in mind. The AATK 2008meeting will be held at SUNY-Binghamton andthe co-chairs are Professors Sungdai Cho andSusan Strauss, and the 2009 event will behosted by the University of Washington inSeattle, chaired by Professors Soohee Kimand Hyo Sang Lee.
In addition, I would like to report on two newAATK projects that were launched this yearwith generous support from the KoreaFoundation. The first is the AATK-ACTFLconnection. Ten AATK officers and boardmembers participated as panel members in theinaugural Special Interest Group (SIG)Business Meeting at the 2006 AnnualConference of the American Council on theTeaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL), thelargest and most influential convention offoreign language teachers in the United States.Dean Sahie Kang of the Defense LanguageInstitute worked hard for many years toestablish the Korean SIG, through signaturedrives and by actively lobbying with the ACTFLadministration. Now that the Korean SIG hasfinally been approved, it is imperative to
demonstrate our genuine interest amongKorean teachers. The Korean SIG status isprovisionary for three years, and it is expectedthat the decision to grant us permanent statuswill be made by the ACFTL board membersafter evaluating our meetings and the level ofparticipation by Korean teachers. A report fromDean Kang will follow later in this newsletter.The second project is the establishment of theKorea Foundation-AATK Graduate TeachingAssistant Fellowships. Its purpose is to expandand enhance Korean language education inAmerica by providing stipends for graduateteaching assistants in those institutions whichcannot afford to hire regular instructors to offerKorean language courses. We have justcompleted the first cycle of evaluation and, in aseparate section of this newsletter, we will hearfrom Professor Hyo Sang Lee, the chair of theselection committee with a report on this year’sawardees. This year's selection committeeconsisted of the four AATK officers and twoboard members, as well as Mr. KyungchulPark, Director of the Korea Foundation in theWashington DC office.
Lastly, we are truly thankful to Professor Hye-Sook Wang for her willingness to continue toserve as the Editor of The Korean Language inAmerica. As the fourth President of the AATK,she implemented the change from conferenceproceedings to a peer-reviewed post-conference format beginning with volume 10(2005). It is a singular publication centeringexclusively on Korean teaching in the English-speaking world, distributed not only to AATKmembers but also to libraries and academicprograms throughout the U.S. and Canada. Aseparate announcement from Professor Wangregarding this publication is also included inthis newsletter.
In sum, the past year has been an exciting onewith new projects for the AATK, and achallenging year for me personally with a slowlearning curve. I doubt we could have come
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this far without the hard work, activeparticipation and good humor shown by theofficers and the fellow members.
Webmaster and Susan StraussNewsletter Editor: (Penn State Univ.)
Ex-Officio Officers (Past Presidents)
Ho-min Sohn 1st President1994-1997
Yoo-Sang Rhee 2nd President1997-2000
Joe Jungno Ree 3rd President:2000-2003
Hye-Sook Wang 4th President:2003-2006
Board of Directors (3-year term)
2004-2007Kijoo Ko UC Berkeley
2005-2008Hangtae Cho University of Minnesota
Mark Peterson Brigham Young University
2006-2009Andrew Byon University at Albany/SUNY
Byong-Joon Lim Defense Lang. Inst. —FL Center
Mijeong Mimi Kim Washington University
Minsook Kim U. of Wisconsin, Milwaukee (Grad Student Rep)
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AATK WEBSITE AND LISTSERV
The AATK has been maintaining its permanentwebsite (http://www.aatk.org) since December2003. The membership directory iscontinuously updated and posted on thewebsite. Job openings, Korean languageprograms in U.S. institutions, and usefulresources for Korean teachers and learnersare also regularly updated and posted. You willfind the most up-to-date information about ourfield through this website. Please send anyupdates or corrections to the Webmaster, Dr.Susan Strauss, at [email protected]. Be sure toindicate “AATK item” in the subject line.
AATK also manages a listserv, [email protected],through which useful information and news aredisseminated to our members. As newmembers join AATK and pay the membershipfees, they will be immediately added to ourlistserv and will automatically receive postedannouncements.
MEMBERSHIP UPDATE
AATK membership fees are $50.00 for regularmembers and $30.00 for student membership.Memberships are renewed at the annualconference and workshop. Those who areunable to attend the annual meeting may sendtheir membership dues to the AATK Treasurer,Dr. Hae-Young Kim. The membershipapplication/renewal form is attached to thisnewsletter and is also available on our website.
THE 12 T H CONFERENCEAND WORKSHOP
Our 12th Annual Conference and ProfessionalDevelopment Workshop will be held from June14 – 16 and hosted by the University ofChicago. The Professional DevelopmentWorkshop will precede the main conference.The theme of this year’s workshop is “Testingand Assessment.” Our two invited speakers
are: Professor John Norris, Department ofSecond Language Studies, University ofHawai’i at Manoa — “Developing usefulassessments for diverse purposes in collegiateKorean programs: An evaluative perspective,”and Donna M. Brinton, Associate Director,UCLA Center for World Languages —“Content-based instruction — Reflecting on itsapplicability to the teaching of Korean.” Theconference program and workshop scheduleare available on our website.
AATK-ACTFL LINK — KOREANSIG AT ACTFL
A Message From Dr. Sahie Kang
The Korean language teaching communitymade its first official presence at the 40th
Annual Conference of the American Council onTeachers of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) inNashville, Tennessee, held November 16-19,2006. ACTFL has close to 10,000 members ofK-16 foreign language educators in the UnitedStates. The inaugural Korean Special InterestGroup (SIG) Business Meeting took place onNovember 17, 2006 with over 60 Koreanlanguage teachers and specialists inattendance. This included the attendance often AATK officers and board members whoparticipated as panel members and more thanten public school teachers representing K-12institutions. The President of ACTFL and theexecutive officers and board members joinedthe meeting to extend a warm welcome to theKorean SIG members. They underscored thegreat success of this first meeting, noting amembership in the Korean SIG of more than100 individuals.
Our status as ACTFL Korean SIG isprovisionary for three years. Throughout thesethree years, it will be of the utmost importancefor us to maintain a minimum of fiftymemberships annually, with active participationin ACTFL meetings, if we are to gain
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permanent status by the end of our three-yearprovisionary period. The presence andparticipation of Korean language educators atACTFL is critical for the Korean languageteaching community, not only because ACTFLis the largest foreign language educators’association in the United States, but alsobecause it is one of the most prominentorganizations that influences policy makingdecisions concerning foreign languageeducation in the United States.
The Korea Foundation also made a significantpresence at ACTFL. The Korea Foundation inSeoul, Korea and its branch office inWashington DC opened the first Korean boothat the ACTFL Exhibition during the 2006annual conference. The Korea Foundationbooth displayed a wide range of materials onKorean language and culture, brought fromKorea and from institutions throughout theUnited States. The Korea Foundation’spresence and exhibitor’s booth provided greatencouragement to the Korean SIG membersand became the central location for the KoreanSIG members during the entire conference.The Korea Foundation booth also attractedmany interested publishers, educators andadministrators planning to initiate Koreanprograms in their institutions. Following theKorean SIG business meeting, the KoreaFoundation generously hosted a dinnerreception for all of the members and promisedcontinued support to the Korean SIG.
At the business meeting, Korean SIG membersunanimously put forward Dr. Sahie Kang as thefirst Chair of the Korean SIG, and discussedfuture plans and visions. Three additionalofficers were also appointed: Ms. June Hong(Crescenta Valley High School) and Dr. Young-mee Cho (Rutgers University) as Vice-Chairsand Dr. Heejong Yi (Defense LanguageInstitute) as Secretary-Treasurer.
At this year’s annual meeting of ACTFL, theKorean SIG plans to do the following: Host twopanel presentations and a poster presentationat ACTFL; co-host a Korea Foundationluncheon during the conference; and sponsor anation-wide Korean language speech contestin the Fall followed by an awards ceremony totake place during the Korea Foundationluncheon. In the future, the Korean SIG willvoice the concerns and needs of its membersand represent the Korean teaching communityin many different activities and projects thatACTFL would initiate.
KOREA FOUNDATION — AATKFELLOWSHIPS
A Message From Dr. Hyo Sang Lee
Sponsored by the Korea Foundation, AATKhas launched a Graduate Teaching AssistantFellowship Grant Program for those institutionsthat need an instructor for expanding theirKorean language course offerings or those thatwould like to launch a new Korean languageprogram. This year's recipient institutions areOhio State University and GeorgetownUniversity. Ohio State University will use thegrant for their unique “IndividualizedInstruction” of the Korean language, andGeorgetown University will use it to offer anewly developed Korean level III courseentit led “Interactive Korean throughMultimedia.” This year's selection committeeconsisted of the four AATK officers, two boardmembers, and Director Kyungchul Park of theKorea Foundation, Washington DC office. Fordetailed information on the program and theapplication procedure, please visit the AATKweb site (http://www.aatk.org).
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KOREAN LANGUAGE INAMERICA
A Message From The Editor,Dr. Hye-Sook Wang
As many of you may know, Korean Languagein America has been published as a post-conference peer-reviewed publication since the2005 annual meeting (volume 10). More thanten articles were published in two volumes (vol.10 & vol. 11) on a variety of topics through thisprocess. The quality of the publication hasbeen substantially upgraded with this changeand will continue to be that way. With the 2007annual meeting fast approaching, I would liketo share a few thoughts with you as the editorof the journal. First, the overall submission ratecould be greater if authors participated moreactively in the publication process. I stronglyencourage you to consider submitting yourpapers. Nothing can be more rewarding than toshare your research with your colleaguesthrough publication. Second, more papers onculture and literature are desirable. Very fewpapers have been submitted in these areas.Third, we welcome papers, both theoreticaland practical in nature, but encourage studieson the application of theory to practice ratherthan papers that are purely theoretical orpurely practical. We highly welcome data-driven, empirical studies. I wish you aproductive and rewarding meeting and hope toreceive your submissions. Following is detailedinformation regarding the submission process.
Paper Submission Information for Volume 12(2007):
Submission Deadline: July 31, 2007 (latesubmissions will NOT be accepted).
a. Send to: [email protected](only e-mail submissions will be accepted).
b. Papers not conforming to AATK stylerequirements will be returned. AATK stylerequirements can be found on ourhomepage (aatk.org -> publication).
c. All questions should be directed to theeditor, [email protected].
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MEMBER HIGHLIGHTS
1) Professor Sahie Kang (D e f e n s eLanguage Institute Foreign LanguageCenter) has been appointed as the Dean ofAsian School II at Defense Language Instituteafter five years of service as the Dean ofMiddle East School II. Asian School II has fourKorean language departments with about 110Korean faculty members and a Hebrewdepartment with about 20 Hebrew languagefaculty members. This appointment isespecially meaningful in the sixty years of thehistory of the DLI, because Dean Kang is thefirst Korean to lead a Korean school. With herleadership, DLI anticipates a more active roleof its Korean program in the Korean languageteaching community in and beyond the UnitedStates.
2) Dr. Kyung-Nyun Kim Richards (UCBerkeley)
A) Received the "PEN Korea 39th
Translation Award" on November 2, 2006in Seoul, Korea for the translation of YunHumyong's novel The Love of Dunhuang.Previously the book had been exhibitedas one of the "100 Books from Korea" atthe Frankfurt Book Fair, October, 2005,Frankfurt, Germany,
B) Published the Korean-Englishbilingual edition of selected poems by KimSeung-Hee entitled Life Within An Egg byDapgae Publishers in Seoul, Korea,March, 2007,
C) Published a poem, "Vision Test" (inEnglish) in The Seventh Quarry poetryjournal published in Swansea, Wales,Winter, 2006, and
D) Published poems "PescaderoBeach" (in English), "Paek-je-in" (inKorean), and others and the essay
"Karma" in the San Francisco PENLiterature Vol. III, 2006.
3) From Dr. Hyo Sang Lee (IndianaUniversity): Dr. Kyoim Yun (Ph.D, IndianaUniversity 2007) has been appointed as atenure-track assistant professor of Koreanlanguage and culture at University of Kansas.She will teach Korean language courses aswell as Korean culture courses, starting thisFall.
4) Dr. Mihyon Jeon (York University)published two journal articles on topics relatedto Korean language education in NorthAmerica: Jeon, M. (2007). “BiliteracyDevelopment and Continua of Bililteracy: Thecase of Korean Americans.” Korean Journal ofApplied Linguistics, and Jeon, M. (2007).“Language Ideologies and Bilingual Education:A Korean-American Perspective.” LanguageAwareness.
5) Dr. Sungdai Cho (University atBinghamton/SUNY)
A) Received a University and SUNYChancellor's Award for Excellence inTeaching,
B) Together with Prof. John Whitman ofCornell University will co-host the 2008meeting of ICKL (the 16th Meeting of theInternational Conference of KoreanLinguistics) on June 24 – 26, 2008 inBinghamton and Ithaca, and
C) The Korean Studies Faculty atSUNY at Binghamton will organize aKorean Studies Symposium (includingKorean Language) on October 28, 2007,the theme of which is "The KoreanPeninsula and Beyond: Re-centeringKorean Studies".
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6) From Dr. Hangtae Cho (University ofMinnesota):
A) Dr. Sang-Seok Yoon (full-timelecturer) won the "Award of Recognition toInternational Education 2007,“ and
B) Dr. Ji-Eun Lee was hired as a postdoc to teach Korean literature courses,beginning in Fall, 2007.
7) Dr. Sunny Jung (Univ. of CA, SantaBarbara): Abiding Places; Korea South &North, is a collection of poetry by Ko Un,translated by Sunny Jung and HillelS c h w a r t z , published by Tupelo pressDecember, 2006. The book also was awarded“The Balcones Poetry Prize” of AustinCommunity College. This is a prize awarded tofour finalists out of a total of 121 published andsubmitted books for 2006.
8) Dr. Eun-Hee Koo (Adroit College):Please Buy Korean Language: A live storyfrom Korean language classroom in U.S.A.was recently published in Korea (written inKorean). This book, written by Adroit CollegePresident Dr. Eun Hee Koo, is a compilation ofstories depicting the experiences and feelingsof a Korean language teacher in the U.S..Filled with touching essays and photos, thisbook is an inspiration to aspiring Koreanlanguage teachers. If you are interested inpurchasing this book, please send an email [email protected].
9) Dr. Hae-Young Kim (Duke University)
A) Published a co-authored chapterwith Dr. EunHee Lee in the book Frontiersof Korean Language Acquisition (2007)edited by Jae Jung Song. The chapter isentitled, “The Development of Tense andAspect Morphology in L2 Korean.” Thebook is publ ished by Sage.
Information about the contents of the booki s a v a i l a b l e a t :http://www.btowstore.com/epages/Store.sf/?ObjectPath=/Shops/17146/Products/1872843611, and
B) Published a co-authored article withK. Seon Jeon in Studies in SecondLanguage Acquisition (2007), Vol. 29, No.2. This is a thematic issue on theacquisition of relative clauses and theNoun Phrase Accessibility Hierarchy. Thearticle is entitled “Development ofRelativization in Korean as a ForeignLanguage: The Noun Phrase AccessibilityHierarchy in Head-Internal and Head-External Relative Clauses.” For moredetai ls about the issue, seehttp://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayIssue?jid=SLA&volumeId=29&issueId=02
10) Dr. Eunju Na (New York University) wash i red as a Ko rean l anguageLecturer/Coordinator of the Korean languageprogram at New York University.
11) From Dr. John Whitman (CornellUniversity): Cornell has hired two full timelecturers in Korean: Dr. Meejeong Song(currently at Cornell) and Dr. Hee-JeongJeong, who is currently completing her Ph.D.at University of Hawai’i.
12) Dr. Hye-Sook Wang (Brown University):Her textbook, Generation Gap and OtherEssays: Readings in Korean Culture is in thefinal stage of publishing. The book is expectedto be available for purchase in August, 2007. Itis essentially a reader and the target audienceis from high intermediate to advanced learners.Anyone interested in purchasing this bookshould contact Dr. Wang directly or thepublisher, Cheng-Tsui, at Cheng-Tsui.com.
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13) Dr. Joowon Suh (Princeton University)received her Ed.D. in Applied Linguistics fromTeachers College, Columbia University inFebruary, 2007. Dr. Suh is a full-time Lecturerin Korean at Princeton University.
14) Dr. Ji-Yeon O. Jo (The University ofNorth Carolina, Chapel Hill) accepted a fulltime Lecturer position in Korean in Fall, 2006 inthe Department of Asian Studies at TheUniversity of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
15) Dr. Inku Kim-Marshall (GeorgetownUniversity) has written two textbooks:
A) Once Upon a Time in Korea is abasic textbook for elementary levels ofstudy. It is designed to aid students learnKorean as a second language, from thepoint of view of enhancing language skillsand developing an understanding ofKorean culture. The book includes stories,legends, and folktales, rewritten for basicKorean learners, using simple sentencestructures and everyday vocabulary whilestill preserving the original meaning. Thetexts are supplemented by: vocabularylists, explanations of idioms, and “CulturalNotes” to provide a background tobroaden students’ understanding ofKorean language and culture. Theworkbook for this reader is currently inpreparation and is soon to be published.Hangukmunhwasa,, 2005. Seoul.
B) Cultural Readings from Folk Tales,Legends, and History, an intermediate-level cultural reader for students whohave successfully completed intermediateKorean. This text affords students theopportunity to further improve theirlanguage skills as they become familiarwith Korean culture and history. The bookincludes: well-known folk tales, legends,and history with vocabulary suited forintermediate level study; vocabulary
definitions and grammar explanations; asection on people, which providesstudents with the historical contexts forimportant figures in Korean history; anappendix with explanations about Koreanphrases and grammar; and vividillustrations throughout, to engage thes t u d e n t s ’ i m a g i n a t i o n .Hangukmunhwasa,, 2006. Seoul.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
From Dr. Carol H. Schulz (ColumbiaUniversity) – ACTFL OPI TRAININGWORKSHOP: A full Oral Proficiency Interview(OPI) Tester Training Workshop in Korean willbe held at Columbia University from October 5– October 7, 2007. This is the third Korean OPITraining Workshop at Columbia University.This ACTFL Training Workshop will beconducted in Korean. Enrollment is limited.Registration deadline is September 3, 2007.F o r m o r e i n f o r m a t i o n , e - m a i [email protected] or call (914) 963-8830Ext. 225.
KOREAN LANGUAGEPROGRAM UPDATES
1) In its second year of offering all threelevels of Korean language courses (beginning,intermediate, and advanced), the KoreanProgram at York University offered Koreanlanguage courses to 98 students in total duringthe academic year of 2006-2007. In thefollowing year, a course on contemporaryKorean culture and society will be offered.
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2) On March 10th, 2007, The 1st OntarioKorean Speech Contest was successfully heldat University of Toronto. Mihyon Jeon of YorkUniversity, Heayoung Im of University ofToronto, and Jeeweon Shin of University ofWestern Ontario organized the speech contest.A news clip about the contest can be found athttp://www.alltv.ca/bbs.php?table=news&query=view&uid=109&p=2 The contestants wereuniversity students and the majority of thecontestants (i.e., 12 out of 13) were non-Korean.
3) The Korean program at University ofMinnesota begins to offer "Readings in Sino-Korean texts," which is a fourth-year Koreancourse.
4) The Department of Asian and AfricanLanguages and Literature at Duke Universityhas established a minor in Korean as ofacademic year 2006-2007. The Department isplanning to create a major in Korean onceKorean literature/culture faculty is recruited.Two students of the class of 2007 graduatedwith a minor in Korean.
5) The Department of Asian Studies atUniversity of North Carolina, Chapel Hilllaunched its Korean program in Fall, 2006 byoffering elementary level Korean. Due to thehigh level of student interest, the Departmenthas decided to offer elementary andintermediate levels as of Fall, 2007.
6) The University of Hawai’i-KapiolaniCommunity College (KCC) was awarded afour-year grant (Freeman FoundationCommunity College Scholarship--FFCCS) forintensive Korean study. The FFCCS programprovides a unique opportunity for students atthe seven community colleges in Hawaii tostudy a second language and acquire studyabroad experience. The program follows acontent-based model of instruction, combinedwith intensive language training in the target
language. The scholarship covers twosemesters of study. The first semester includessupport at the home college, i.e., tuition, books,housing, and most meals. The secondsemester abroad in Japan, China, or Koreaincludes: round-trip airfare from Honolulu, localtransportation within the country, tuition, roomand board, and a stipend. The FFCC-Koreascholarship program has been offered in theSummer-Fall semesters since 2005. Followingintensive Korean language training thissummer for 12 weeks at the KCC, Freemanstudents will spend the Fall semester atKyungpook National University.
7) CALPER (The Center for AdvancedLanguage Proficiency Education andResearch — at Penn State) has finalized fourworkbooks with teaching/study materialsfor advanced/heritage language learners.The workbooks address: Completive AspectMarking, Honorific Speech Level Alternations,Markers of Newly Perceived Information, andRoute Directions (“Getting from Here to Therein Korean”). These are available in adownloadable PDF format. Visit the CALPERwebsite at http://calper.la.psu.edu and click onthe project entitled “Korean.” Questions,comments, and/or requests for thedevelopment of materials on specific topics ofgrammar, pragmatics, and/or culture should besent directly to Prof. Susan Strauss [email protected]. Three new chapters areforthcoming and will be made available by Fall,2007.
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Dr. Hae-Young Kim Dept. of Asian and African Languages and Literature