Exploring the New Waves in Korean Applied Linguistics

The Penn State Institute for Korean Studies is hosting the 2nd Korean Applied Linguistics Conference, with this year’s theme: Exploring New Waves in Korean Applied Linguistics. By “new waves” we refer dually to The Korean Wave as well as to the various new and emerging approaches in the diverse fields related to Korean Applied Linguistics.   

Thanks to the international popularity of Korean movies, dramas, and K-Pop, the number of Korean L2 learners has increased significantly. According to the  most recent MLA report (2018), Korean is the only language that showed a sharp increase in enrollment (+13.7%) over the past few years and ranks as the 11th most taught language in US colleges and universities in 2016. The growing visibility of Korean culture and language has also brought diverse groups of learners to Korean language and content classes, resulting in wider ranges of students with varying proficiency levels, learner characteristics, goals, and expectations.

Embracing the theme “Exploring New Waves in Korean Applied Linguistics,” the 2nd Penn State Korean Applied Linguistics Conference invites proposals for research and research-informed practical application that discusses the diversity underlying  Korean learners’ language use and learning as well as new approaches to and methodologies concerning Korean Applied Linguistics. Abstracts addressing any aspect of Korean Applied Linguistics in higher education are welcome.

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