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Hae-Young Kim

Professor of the Practice of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
Asian & Middle Eastern Studies
Box 90414, Durham, NC 27708-0414
2204 Erwin Road Room 223, Box 90414, Durham, NC 27708

Scholarly Works - Book sections


Second Language Acquisition and its implications for teaching Korean

Book section · September 1, 2020 Decades of SLA research has shed light on complex processes and mechanisms of L2 learning, and influenced the discussions and directions of L2 teaching. This chapter starts with discussion of how L2 development departs from L1 acquisition, and introduces m ... Cite

Korean in the USA

Book section · January 1, 2010 Introduction Koreans are the fifth largest group of Asians in the USA, after Chinese, Filipino, Indian (South Asian), and Vietnamese (US Census Bureau 2000a). As shown in Table 1.1, the number of Korean speakers in the USA grew by 43 percent from 1990 to 2 ... Full text Cite

Heritage language learners’ attitudes, motivations and instructional needs: The case of post-secondary Korean language learners

Book section · 2008 This study examines college-level Korean language learners’ language attitudes, motivational orientations, and self-efficacy as heritage language learners. Through surveys and interviews with 111 students, we found that 1) learners’ attitudes toward the st ... Cite

The development of tense and aspect morphology in L2 Korean

Book section · 2007 This study investigates whether L2 Korean acquisition data upholds the Aspect Hypothesis, which claims that the development of grammatical tense and aspect marking is determined by lexical aspect. Cross-sectional data were collected from 60 learners of Kor ... Cite