Boo Kyung Jung

  • Instructor I of Korean

Courses Taught

  • Beginning Korean
  • Intermediate Korean
  • Advanced Korean
  • Reading Chinese characters

Education & Training

  • Ph.D., East Asian Languages and Literatures, University of Hawai‘i, Mānoa

Representative Publications

Jung, B. K., & Shin, G-H. (accepted). Use of locative postposition-verb construction in Korean: Analysis of L1-Korean corpora and L2-Korean. Corpora. 

Jung, B.K. (2022). The nature of L2 input: Analysis of textbooks for learners of Korean as a second language. Korean Linguistics, 18(2), 182-208.

Jung, B. K., & Shin, G-H. (2022). L2 textbook input and L2 written production: A case of Korean locative postposition-verb construction. International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching. https://doi.org/10.1515/iral-2022-0028

Shin, G-H., & Jung, B. K. (2022). Input-output relation in L2 acquisition: Textbook and learner writing for adult English-speaking beginners of Korean. Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 45(3), 347-370. http://doi.org/10.1075/aral.20049.shi

Shin, G-H., & Jung, B. K. (2021). Automatic analysis of learner corpora in Korean: Written production of Korean passive constructions for Mandarin-speaking learners of Korean. International Journal of Learner Corpus Research, 7(1), 53-82. https://doi.org/10.1075/ijlcr.20002.shi

 

Selected Conference Presentations

Shin, G-H., Jung, B. K., & Mun, S. (2023, March). Transformer and text similarity: Implications for language researchers and educators. Paper presenting at the 2023 American Association for Applied Linguistics Conference, Portland, Oregon, USA.

Jung, B. K., & Shin, G-H. (2023, March). L2 textbook and learners’ use of verb-in- construction: A case of Korean locative postposition–verb construction. Paper presenting at the 2023 American Association for Applied Linguistics Conference, Portland, Oregon, USA.

Jung, B. K., Shin, G-H., & Lee, C. (2022, August). Interactive roles of L2 textbook input and L1 properties for L2 knowledge: Evidence from subject-predicate honorific agreement in Korean. Paper presenting at EuroSLA 31. University of Fribourg, Switzerland.

Shin, G-H., Jung, B. K., & Mun, S. (2022, August). Transformer-architecture-based text similarity and L2 proficiency. Paper presenting at EuroSLA 31. University of Fribourg, Switzerland.

Shin, G-H., & Jung, B. K. (2022, June). Transformer architecture and text similarity: Written production by English-speaking learners of Korean. Paper presenting at the 27th American Association of Teachers of Korean (AATK) Annual Conference and Workshop, Cornell University, USA.

Jung, B. K., Shin, G-H., & Lee, C. (2022, March). Different learning environments, different learning outcomes: L2-Korean learners’ comprehension of subject-predicate honorific agreement in Korean. Paper presenting at the 2022 American Association for Applied Linguistics Conference (AAAL), Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.

Jung, B.K., & Shin, G-H. (March 2021). Measuring text quality of learner writing automatically through txt similarity techniques. Poster presenting at the American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL), Virtual conference.

Jung, B. K. (June 2018). The nature of spaces built by -e/a kaciko and -e/ase in modern spoken Korean. Paper presenting at the Seoul National University-International Conference on Linguistics (SNU-ICL), SNU, Seoul, Korea.

Jung, B. K. (June 2017). “Pairedness of ‘-(u)l swu iss-‘ and ‘-(u)l swu eps-’ in Korean Corpora and their Implications”, American Association of Teaching Korean (AATK), University of Southern California, California, USA.

Research Interests

Korean pedagogy
Corpus linguistics