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About

So-Yeon Ahn is an Associate Professor in the School of Digital Humanities and Computational Social Sciences (Link) and a joint professor in the School of Computing (Link), Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) in South Korea. 

She studied English interpretation and translation at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies in Seoul, South Korea, and obtained a MS.Ed degree in TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages) at University of Pennsylvania. After gaining her doctoral degree in Foreign and Second Language Education at the State University of New York at Buffalo, she taught at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies and City University of Hong Kong. 

She conducts research on language teacher and learner identity, language play and awareness, emotion, humor, intercultural competence and language education, and social and cultural approaches to language learning. She is particularly interested in the multimodal analysis of language teacher and language learner identity construction and societal ideologies. 

Areas of Expertise

Language Teaching and Learning; Multimodal Analysis; Intercultural Competence; Curriculum and Instruction; Sociolinguistics; Discourse; Language in Social Interaction; Classroom Interaction; AI-based Language Learning