Ph.D., Educational Psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2009)
Assistant Professor, Korea University
Institute of Foreign Language Studies, Korea University, Seoul, Korea
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I have also done some research on the effects of English medium instruction (EMI) on university education. My relevant publications include the following. 

1. Lee, K., & Lee, H. (in press). An EAP professional development program for graduate students in Korea. TESOL Quarterly. https://doi.org/10.1002/tesq.447
2. Lee, K., & Lee, H. (2018). Korean Graduate Students’ Self-perceptions of English Skills and Needs in an English-medium Instruction Context. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 39(8), 715-728.
3. Lee, K., & Lee, H. (2017). Korean graduate students’ perceptions of guidance and professional development. Higher Education, 73(5), 725–740. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10734-016-9988-9 [Survey items, 70 MB, PDF ] 

Other research interests

Cognitive grammar, psycholinguistics, writing research, applied phonology, grammar pedagogy, cognitive communicative language teaching, language education

Publications

Here is a complete list of publications so far. 

1. Lee, K., & Lee, H. (in press). An EAP professional development program for graduate students in Korea. TESOL Quarterly. https://doi.org/10.1002/tesq.447
2. Lee, K., & Lee, H. (2018). Korean Graduate Students’ Self-perceptions of English Skills and Needs in an English-medium Instruction Context. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development. https://doi.org/10.1080/01434632.2018.1438442 *
3. Lee, K. (2017). A “the” or the “a”? L2 Learner problems and patterns. Korea TESOL Journal, 13(2), 25-48. (A copy of this article is available by request.)
4. Lee, K., & Lee, H. (2017). Korean graduate students’ perceptions of guidance and professional development. Higher Education, 73(5), 725–740. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10734-016-9988-9 [Survey items, 70 MB, PDF ] *
5. Lee, K. (2013). Right dislocation in Chinese: Interface of syntax and information structure. Korean Journal of Chinese Language and Literature, 55, 3-50. +
6. Lee, K. (2013). Sentence stress in information structure. Oeneohag [J. Korean Ling. Soc.], 66,3-30. +
7. Lee, K. (2013). Koreans’ use of English connectors and topic management in writing. English Language Teaching, 25(2), 81-103. +
8. Lee, K. (2013). Tonal reduplication in Kibondei. The Journal of Studies in Language, 29(1), 129-150. +
9. Stine-Morrow, E., Shake, M., Miles, J., Lee, K., Gao, X. & McKonkie, G. (2010). Pay now or pay later: Aging and the role of boundary salience in self-regulation of conceptual integration in sentence processing. Psychology and Aging, 25, 168-176. doi:10.1037/a0018127. *
10. Lee, K. (2009). [Book review of Brinton (2008), The comment clause in English.] Studies in Language, 33, 1004-1011. doi: 10.1075/sl.33.4.09lee.
11. Lee, K. (2009). Phonological and semantic information used in reading Chinese characters.Proceedings of the Fourth International Symposium on Chinese Regional Culture and Language, Hanyang University.
12. Lee, K. (2009). Phonological and semantic processing of Chinese characters. Dissertation, Educational Psychology Dept., University of Illinois.
13. Lee, K. (2008). Phonological and other linguistic effects in recognition of Chinese characters. In Proceedings of the 6th International Conference of Cognitive Science (pp. 233-236). Seoul: ICCS.
14. Lee, K. (2003). Discourse Markers ‘well’ and ‘oh’. In Bardovi-Harlig, K. (Ed.), Teaching Pragmatics. Available online at http://americanenglish.state.gov/resources/teaching-pragmatics. US Information Agency & Indiana University.
15. Lee, K. (2001). Teaching discourse stress to Asian students. KOTESOL Proceedings 2001, pp. 103-116.
16. Lee, K. (2001). Focus and discourse stress. M.A. Thesis, Div. English as International Language (TESOL), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
17. Lee, K. (1997). Chinese Tone Sandhi and Prosody. M.A. Thesis, Linguistics Dept., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Notes: * SSCI/A&HCI indexed; + KCI indexed; % Scopus indexed

Submitted or under review

1. Lee, K. (submitted). English sentence stress: Form and function.
2. Lee, K. (submitted). Teaching determiners: Addressing Korean university students’ misconceptions.
3. Lee, K. (submitted). Chinese ESL writers’ use of English contrastive connectives.

Notes: * SSCI indexed; + KCI indexed; % Scopus indexed. 

Contributing editorship

1. 수능특강 고득점 330 제 (외국어영역) [College Entrance Exam High Score 330]. (2012). Lee, K., Barron, J., Goranson, J., Fanguy, M., Turner, A., Wray, M. (Eds.). Seoul: EBS.
2. 수능특강 A&B 형 [College Entrance Exam Special Lecture Series A & B]. (2013). Lee, K. & Tiffin, S. (Eds.). Seoul: EBS.
3. 7030 Final 실전모의고사 영어영역 A & B형 [Practice Area Practice Tests A & B]. (2013), Lee, K. & — (Eds.). Seoul: EBS.

Conferences presentations

1. Lee, K. (2017). A “the” or the “a”? L2 learner problems and patterns. Presentation at KOTESOL conference, October 2017.
2. Lee, K. (2017). Teaching determiners: Some cognitive approaches for university EFL learners. Presentation at KATE (Korean Association of Teachers of English) conference, June 2017, Seoul.
3. Lee, K. (2016). Determiner usage: Variation among native speakers and Korean university students. Presentation at KATE (Korean Association of Teachers of English) conference, July 2016, Seoul.
4. Lee, K. (2015). Teaching articles: A cognitive approach for learners. Presentation at KATE (Korean Association of Teachers of English) conference, Aug. 2015, Seoul, Korea.
5. Lee, K. (2014). Korean writers’ article errors: A cognitive linguistic approach. Presentation at KATE (Korean Association of Teachers of English) conference, July 2014, Seoul National University.
6. Lee, K. & Lee, H.-K. (2014). Faculty development for English-mediated instruction. Poster presented at Conference on Higher Education Pedagogy, Feb. 2014, Virginia Technical University.
7. Lee, K. (2012). Instructional coaching at an East Asian university. Paper presented at ISSOTL (International Scholarship of Teaching & Learning) conference, October 2012, Hamilton, Ontario.
8. Lee, K. (2011). Some discourse patterns of depressed and suicidal persons. Paper presented at 21st World Congress on Psychosomatic Medicine (International College of Psychosomatic Medicine). Seoul, Korea, August 2011.
9. Lee, K. (2009). Phonological and semantic information used in reading Chinese characters. Paper presented at Fourth International Symposium on Chinese Regional Culture and Language, Hanyang University, June 2009.
10. Lee, K. (2008). Phonological and other linguistic effects in recognition of Chinese characters. Paper presented at 6th International Conference of Cognitive Science. Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea, August 2008.
11. Lee, K. (2006). Semantic modeling of Chinese characters. Poster presented at 5th International Conference on the Mental Lexicon, McGill University, Montreal, 10-13 October 2006.
12. Lee, K. (2005). Discourse connectives and organization in Korean L2 writing. World Englishes conference, July 2005, Purdue University.
13. Lee, K. (2005). L2 Perspectives on English discourse connectives. Pragmatics and Language Learning Conference, April 2005, Indiana University.
14. Lee, K. (2004). Teaching scientific paradigms in ESL/EAP. Presentation at Symposium on Second Language Writing, Purdue University, Sept. 2004.
15. Lee, K. (2001). Teaching discourse stress to Asian students. KOTESOL (Korea TESOL), October 2001, Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, Korea.
16. Lee, K. (2001). Like, teaching discourse markers. TESOL Conference, St. Louis, Missouri, March 2001.
17. Lee, K. (2000). “Like” as a discourse information marker. Pragmatics and Language Learning Conference, University of Illinois (UIUC), April 2000.
18. Lee, K. (1999). Are TBLT and explicit grammar instruction compatible? Colloquium presentation. TESOL conference, New York NY, March 1999.