Grants & Awards
Grants
| Year | Projects | Organization | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-2025 | AKS Korean Studies Grant, "Exploring Learner and Educator Perceptions of AI Chatbots as Language-Learning Partners: A Focus on Spoken Korean Practice” | The Academy of Korean Studies | $12,150 USD |
| 2021-2022 | AKS Korean Studies Grant, "Investigating the impact of audiovisual perceptual training on the acquisition of Korean sounds by second language learners" | The Academy of Korean Studies | $8,000 USD |
| 2020-2025 | SSHRC Insight Grant, “Speech rate variation and sound change: from today’s variation to tomorrow’s innovation” (Principle Investigator: Yoonjung Kang , Co-Collaborators: Manami Hirayama, Suyeon Yun, Na-Young Ryu) | The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada | $165,059 CAD |
| 2020-2023 | Seed Program for Korean Studies, “The Promotion of Research and Education in Korean Studies at Pennsylvania State University” (Project Director: Jooyeon Rhee, Co-researchers: Susan Strauss, Lan Kim, Inkyu Kang, Na-Young Ryu) | The Academy of Korean Studies | 159,000,000 KRW |
| 2020 | LCTL Grant for Less Commonly Taught Language Pedagogical Workshop | The Center for Language Teaching Advancement, Michigan State University | $1,000 USD |
| 2016-2019 | SSHRC Institutional Grant for Experiment Participants and Conference Travel Costs | Department of Linguistics, University of Toronto | $2,770 CAD |
| 2017 | AKS Korean Studies Grant, “Acquisition of Korean vowels and nasal codas by Mandarin and English learners of Korean” | The Academy of Korean Studies | $5,100 USD |
Awards & Fellowships
| Year | Projects | Organization | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 지능형 교육지원 시스템 개발을 위한 교과별 데이터 정의 및 분석 방안 연구 | AI-based Education Research Center, Seoul National University | ₩2,000,000 KRW |
| 2021 | AKS Fellowship, “Comparison of audiovisual and auditory-only perceptual training on the perception and production of Korean sounds by second language learners of Korean" | The Academy of Korean Studies | ₩6,000,000 KRW & Round-trip flight |
| 2019 | CSK Conference Travel Support Award | Center for the Study of Korea at the Asian Institute, University of Toronto | $500 CAD |
| 2019 | IPA Student Paper Award, “Web-based high variability phonetic training on L2 coda identification” | International Phonetic Association | £600 GBP |
| 2018-2019 | SSHRC Doctoral Award, “L1 background and the role of universals in L2 acquisition” | The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada | $20,000 CAD |
| 2018 | AATK Excellent Student Paper Award, “Effects of L1 transfer and L2 experience on perception of Korean vowels” | American Association of Teachers of Korean | |
| 2018 | B. Elan Dresher PhD Scholarship | Department of Linguistics, University of Toronto | $4,000 CAD |
| 2017 | AATK Graduate Student Travel Award | American Association of Teachers of Korean | $500 USD |
| 2014-2018 | Four Year Doctoral Fellowship | Department of Linguistics, University of Toronto | $68,000 CAD |
| 2011 | Graduate Research Award | Hankuk University of Foreign Studies | ₩500,000 KRW |
| 2010-2012 | Doctoral Fellowship | Korean APRO Financial Foundation | ₩20,000,000 KRW |
| 2009-2010 | Humanities Graduate Research Fellowship | National Research Foundation of Korea | ₩10,000,000 KRW |
| 2008-2009 | Graduate Fellowship | Hankuk University of Foreign Studies | ₩1,500,000 KRW |