Kitaek Kim, PhD

PRESENT POSITION

2024 - 

Professor, Department of English Language Education, Seoul National University

2020 - 2024

Associate Professor, Department of English Language Education, Seoul National University

[Previously, Assistant & Associate Professor at Gyeongin National University of Education]

EDUCATION

2014

PhD in Second Language Studies

Department of Second Language Studies

University of Hawaii at Manoa

2008

MA in English Language Education

Department of English Language Education 

Seoul National University

2006

BA in English Language Education

Department of English Language Education

Seoul National University

DISSERTATION

Unveiling Linguistic Competence by Facilitating Performance

Committee members:

Bonnie D. Schwartz (co-chair), William O’Grady (co-chair), 

Theres Grüter, Kamil Ud Deen, & Homin Sohn

RESEARCH INTERESTS 

• Sources of non-target-like performance by nonnative language learners

e.g., dominant language transfer, attrition, lexical bottleneck, perceptibility 

• How to facilitate language acquisition and processing

e.g.,  input processing, parsing/prediction failure, curriculum