University of Kansas

In the Department of Linguistics, I teach a handful of courses related to language processing, perception, and acquisition.

Courses Taught

• Language and Mind (LING 110): An introduction to (mostly) experimental approaches to linguistics, in which we discuss topics such as linguistic relativity (Does the particular language you use affect how you perceive the world?), animal communication (How is it similar to and different from human language?), speech perception (How does “what we hear” arise from physical signals like speech and sign?), word recognition (How do we retrieve words from long-term memory?), sentence processing, and language acquisition.
• Language and Mind (LING 111): The honors version of LING 110, open to students enrolled in the University Honors Program.
• Second Language Acquisition (LING 415): An introduction to theories of adult second language acquisition.
• Second Language Acquisition II (LING 516/716): When taught by me, this course goes specifically in depth into phonological acquisition.
• Seminar in Second Language Acquisition (LING 491/860): In Spring 2025, I taught a seminar on the role of word learning in second language phonological acquisition, which I called, “From sounds to words, and back again”.

Korea University

From 2015 to 2023 I taught in the Department of Korean Language and Literature at Korea University, in Seoul. I taught a wide range of courses broadly under the umbrella of "Korean Linguistics". At the undergraduate level, I mostly taught two introductory courses. One was a general introduction to Korean linguistics, which was basically teaching linguistic concepts with reference to Korean phenomena (i.e. Korean phonetics, Korean phonology, Korean morphology, etc.), with the addition of some content on the history of the language and the writing system, Hangul. The other was an introduction to language variation in Korea, in which we covered topics like Korean dialects and perceptual dialectology, sound change, language and gender, foreign accent, politeness, linguistic prescriptivism, authenticity, and loanwords. At the graduate level, I taught a wider range of courses. Many of them revolved research methods, such as experimental design, statistical modeling, and academic writing and ethics. I also occasionally taught seminars on Korean sociolinguistics and second language phonology.