We would like to extend a warm congratulations to Joowon Suh on her appointment as President of American Association for Teachers of Korean (AATK). AATK was founded in 1994 for all levels of teachers of the Korean language, culture, and literature in the United States of America. Its mission is to enhance and promote an interest in the teaching and learning of the Korean language, culture and literature; to carry out research in second language acquisition, applied linguistics, language pedagogy, as well as in the teaching of culture and literature, and to provide a forum for presenting research findings. Joowon Suh will serve for three years until 2021 and has recently begun her term.

Joowon Suh is a Senior Lecturer in Korean and the Director of the Korean Language Program at Columbia University. Prior to joining Columbia in 2017, she taught at Princeton University as Senior Lecturer and Director of the Korean Language Program.

Publications

“English as lingua franca in multilingual business negotiations: Managing miscommunication using other-initiated repairs” (Multilingual Matters, 2015)
KLEAR Integrated Korean Workbook Series: Intermediate 2 (2013; co-author)
KLEAR Integrated Korean Workbook Series: Intermediate 1 (2012; co-author)
KLEAR Integrated Korean Workbook Series: Beginning 2 (2010; co-author)
KLEAR Integrated Korean Workbook Series: Beginning 1 (2009; co-author)