About
Hello! My name is Susie Kim and I am an applied linguist and a language teacher. My current position is a Lecturer in Korean Language for the Department of East Asian Studies at Princeton University.
My main academic interest sits at an intersection of language assessment, second language writing, and corpus-based methods. I have primarily focused on investigating linguistic characteristics and textual features of second language writing at various proficiency levels. More recently, I have been working on building and analyzing Korean language corpora and related tools for teaching purposes.
Photography is something I have always enjoyed in my life so I post them here sometimes. I feel lucky to have had experiences in a darkroom from high school to college but now I’m most interested in long-exposure photography of nature and the night sky.
On this website, I share some research tools and methods as I work through them for my academic projects or personal enjoyment. Please feel free to explore the contents and contact me!
Interests
$ Language Assessment
$ Second Language Writing
$ Corpus Linguistics
$ Language Proficiency Standards
Recent works
- Kim, S. & Isbell, D. (2025). Diagnostic assessment of pronunciation in a Korean language classroom: An action research study. In D. Leontjev, M. Poehner & A. Huhta (Ed.), Dynamic and Diagnostic Language Assessment: Learning across Frameworks to Support Second/Foreign Language Education (pp. 53-72). De Gruyter Mouton.
- Kim, S. & Kessler, M. (2022). Examining L2 English university students’ uses of lexical bundles and their relationship to writing quality. Assessing Writing, 51.
- Kim, S. (2021). Generalizability of CEFR Criterial Grammatical Features in a Korean EFL Corpus across A1, A2, B1, and B2 Levels. Language Assessment Quarterly, 18(3), 273-295.
- Crowther, D., Kim, S., Lee, J., Lim, J., & Loewen, S. (2021). Methodological synthesis of cluster analysis in Second Language research. Language Learning, 71(1), 99-130.
- Kim, S. (2019). Assessing Grammatical Features across Score Levels in Second Language Writing: A Corpus-Based Analysis. Doctoral Dissertation, Michigan State University.
Courses taught at Princeton
- KOR 101/102 Elementary Korean I & II
- KOR 105/107 Intermediate Korean I & II
- KOR 301/302 Advanced Korean I & II
Education
- Ph.D. in Second Language Studies, 2019, Michigan State University (East Lansing, Michigan, USA)
- M.Ed. in English Education, 2013, Graduate School of Education, Yonsei University (Seoul, South Korea)
- B.A. in English Language and Literature, 2011, Yonsei University (Seoul, South Korea)
susiek@princeton.edu