Dr. Eun Kim

Biography

Eun Hee Kim received her PhD in Linguistics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and holds a certificate in Language Acquisition Teacher Education (SLATE). Before joining Northwestern University, she taught various levels of Korean language courses at institutions such as the University of Illinois, Rice University, and Michigan State University. Recognized as an excellent teacher, Kim's students have enjoyed and appreciated her passion for teaching. As a language instructor and researcher, she is interested in the types of linguistic structures that second and foreign language learners struggle with while acquiring the target language, and the tools that can promote learning. Her research examines the potential sources of linguistic misunderstandings among language learners and explores the difficulties they encounter. Kim's work not only contributes to the field of language acquisition and processing but also aims to inform educators and language-teaching professionals, as well as developers of language teaching software, about how learners can effectively use the target language. Her research has been presented in conference proceedings and published in peer-reviewed journals, including the Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference and Linguistics, Language Research.

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