Professional Honors and Grant Awards

PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATES

  • Project-based Language Learning (PBLL) Master Project Design Badged, Mentor, National Foreign Language Resource Center, University of Hawaii at Manoa
  • Certificate of Distance Language Teaching, CLS Yale.
  • Certified ACTFL OPI Track E (for researchers) Tester and Rater in Korean, American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL).
  • Certified ACTFL OPI Tester and Rater- Korean, Oral Proficiency Interview Tester/Rater, American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL).
  • Certified ACTFL Writing Proficiency Test (WPT) Rater in Korean.
  • Certified ACTFL Assessment of Performance toward Proficiency in Languages (AAPPL) Rater in Korean.
  • Certified Korean Teacher for Middle/High School (Subject Specialist), Ministry of Education, Korea.

Professional Development Leave for Instructional Facuty (PDL), Spring 2022. Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), Yale University. Fostering Interdisciplinary Connections in Higher Education: Content-Based Advanced Language Project Modules

The Alfred Whitney Griswold Research Award in 2020, “Building Digital Humanities: Audiovisual Korean Folktales” The Whitney Humanities Center at Yale University.

Yale Center for Language Study Fellowship, 2020 Spring. CJK Collaboration team leader, project “Developing an Inventory of Intercultural Communicative Tasks for CJK Curricula and Richard U. Light Fellows at Yale” In collaboration with N. Liang and H. Nishimura, EALL, Yale.

The Mellon Foundation & the University of Chicago Language Center, 2020.  Transforming Language Instruction at the University of Chicago and Beyond: Collaborative Curricula Development. “Curriculum Design (Korean)”, Collaborated with M. Song (Cornell) and H. Cho (UPenn).

The Mellon Foundation & the University of Chicago Language Center, 2019.  Transforming Language Instruction at the University of Chicago and Beyond: Collaborative Curricula Development.  “Test Design & Development (Korean curriculum)”, Collaborated with M. Song (Cornell) and H. Cho (UPenn).

ROSENKRANZ AWARD FOR PEDAGOGICAL ADVANCEMENT 2019,  Poorvu Center for Teaching and Learning, Yale University. “Digital Humanities: Multiliteracies Podcasts at Yale (MPY)”

Consortium Workshop Award 2018. The Consortium for Language Teaching and Learning “Workshop on Project-Based Language Teaching and Learning”, Primary Organizer, in collaboration with JW. Suh (Columbia U.) and MJ. Song (Cornell U.)] October 25-26, 2019 at Yale.

Yale Center for Language Study Fellowship 2018 Yale Center for Language Study (CLS) Fellowship, Fall, 2018. Co-project with S. Alexandrov (Lector Lector II of Spanish, Yale), “ProM: Creating Pedagogical Modules for Language and Culture Learning Projects”.

THE RICHARD H. BRODHEAD ’68 PRIZE FOR DISTINGUISHED TEACHING, Yale University. 2017

With colleagues of the Project, “Transforming Language Instruction” Sponsored by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the U. of Chicago. (2019)

 

INSTRUCTIONAL INNOVATION WORKSHOP Awards (IIW), INSTRUCTIONAL INNOVATION GRANT (IIG), Center for Language Study (CLS) at Yale 

  • 2023. Instructional Innovation Workshop, Evaluating Learning Outcomes: Assembled the program team project “Korean Curriculum Alignment:Identifying and Assessing Learning Outcomes in Levels 1–5 (L1-L5)
  • 2022. Instructional Innovation Workshop, Creating a Syllabus Using Reverse Design: The Syllabus as a Roadmap for Teaching-Learning (K152): Constructing a Learning-Centered and Project-Based Course Syllabus Implementing a Modular Approach
  • 2021. Instructional Innovation Workshop, Creating Resilient Learning Modules during the Pandemic and Beyond: Intercultural Communicative Projects, Collaboration with Nishhimura and Liang, EALL.
  • 2020. Instructional Innovation Grants, Intercultural Reflection Tasks: Animation Production for Intercultural Reflections
  • 2019. Instructional Innovation Workshop for Building a Digital Humanities Platform: Multiliteracies Podcast at Yale (MPY)
  • 2018. Instructional Innovation Grant for Developing an Online Repository of Project Modules for Language and Culture Learning.
  • 2018. Instructional Innovation Workshop, Developing Interculturality Guidelines for East Asian Language Curricula, Initiated and Co-project with N. Liang (Chinese Coordinator, EALL,Yale) and H. Nishimura (Japanese Coordinator, EALL,Yale)
  • 2016. Instructional Innovation Workshop, Community-based Language Learning, ” Language Learning as Sociocultural Practice: Yale Bulldog Day Campus Tour and Brochure in Korean”-– Project Summary.  Pedagogical Module
  •  2013. Instructional Innovation Workshop, e-Portfolio
  •  2012. Instructional Innovation Workshop, Developing Korean Placement Exam Testing and Assessment (OWL)
  •  2011. Instructional Innovation Workshop, Materials Development to Research about the Needs of Heritage Learners
  • 2010. Instructional Innovation Grants, Online Korean Placement Exam
  • 2010. Instructional Innovation Workshop, The Consortium Workshop on Distance Collaborations
  • 2009. Instructional Innovation Workshop,  Language Assessments
  • 2007. Instructional Innovation Grants, Web-based Dictation Practice Program for Heritage Korean Learners
  • 2006. Instructional Innovation Grants, Advanced Literacy and Lexicon Builder for Korean (ALLBK), course material for the Web-based Advanced Korean Course (a 4th level High-Advanced course ( Advanced Korean III -154). (Co-projected with S. Choi)
  • 2004. Instructional Innovation Grants, Center for Language Studies (CLS), Yale: Online Vocabulary Flashcards for Heritage Korean Learners

 

 GRANT AWARDS

  • Council on East Asian Studies (CEAS) Grant at Yale. Organizer of Korean Language and Studies Undergraduate/Graduate Research Symposium, 2022.
  • Council on East Asian Studies (CEAS) Grant at Yale. Establishing and Organizing Inaugural Korean Language and Studies Undergraduate/Graduate Research Symposium, 2021.
  • Grant from Korean Education Center, Consulate General of the Republic of Korea in New York, “Advanced Level Curriculum Module Development”, Five University Collaboration (NYU, UPenn, Stony Brook U inNY, and Yale U.). 2021-2023.
  • Grant from Korean Education Center, Consulate General of the Republic of Korea in New York, “Multimodal Meaning-making Project (KREN150-151);  Research Symposium for Advanced Korean Course (KREN152-01)” 2022
  • Grant from Korean Education Center, Consulate General of the Republic of Korea in New York, “Lyrics as Storytelling -Song Lyrics- and Singers Collaboration (KREN150); Interdisciplinary Research Symposium for Advanced Korean Course (KREN152-01)” 2021
  • Asian American Cutural Center (AACC) and Council on East Asian Studies (CEAS) at Yale Joint Grants, Organizing  Korean Film Screening and Critical Discussion on ‘Minari’, 2021.
  • The Instructional Enhancement Fund (IEF), Poorvu Center for Teaching and Learning at Yale University, “KREN152 (Advanced Korean), Class Career Talk Series” 2020
  • Grant Award from Korean Education Center, Consulate General of the Republic of Korea in New York: “Creative Writing -Song Lyrics- and Singers Collaboration (KREN150); Interdisciplinary Research Symposium for Advanced Korean Courses (KREN152)” 2020
  • The Alfred Whitney Griswold Research Award, “Building Digital Humanities: Audio-visual Korean Folktales” The Whitney Humanities Center at Yale University. 2020
  • Council on East Asian Studies (CEAS) Grant at Yale. Organizer of Conference, “Bridging Language and Content: Making Interdisciplinary Connections in Higher Education,” October 24, 2020. Yale University. 2020
  • Grant from Korean Education Center, Consulate General of the Republic of Korea in New York: Korean Cultural Festival- Yale, UConn, and Wesleyan  (Initiated CT Tri Universities Collaboration) Fall 2019.
  • Grant from Korean Education Center, Consulate General of the Republic of Korea in New York: Exploring and Learning Korean Culture, Spring 2019. Korean Cultural Show; K-Pop Festival.
  • Yale Council on East Asian Studies (CEAS) Grant for Korean Cultural Events, AY 2019-2020. In collaboration with Hwansoo Kim (Professor, Religious Studies,  and Council of EAS, Yale) Invited speaker, Hangeul Day, Korean Harvest Day, and Korean New Years Day, Korean Cook & Talk Table Series.
  • The Instructional Enhancement Fund (IEF), Poorvu Center for Teaching and Learning at Yale University, Korean Film Screening and Critical Discussion on ‘Parasite’. 2019.
  • Yale Council on East Asian Studies (CEAS) Grant for Workshop, 2019. Workshop on Project-Based Language Teaching and Learning, [Primary organizer: in collaboration with W. Suh (Columbia U.) and MJ. Song (Cornell U.)] October 25-26, 2019 at Yale.
  • Consortium Workshop Award 2018. The Consortium for Language Teaching and Learning Workshop on Project-Based Language Teaching and Learning, Primary Organizer, in collaboration with JW. Suh (Columbia U.) and MJ. Song (Cornell U.)] October 25-26, 2019 at Yale.
  • Council on East Asian Studies (CEAS) Grant 2017, Yale. Organizing Professional Workshop for Yale Language Faculty, “Introduction to Standard-based Integrated Performance Assessment (IPA)”, May 2017.

 

FACULTY TRAVEL GRANT FOR CONFERENCE PRESENTATION, CLS YALE

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