Academic Staff
- HHB707, Hung Hom Bay Campus
- +852 2766 7563
- sun-a.kim@polyu.edu.hk
ORCID ID
SCOPUS ID學歷
- Bachelor of Arts, Ewha Womans University
- Master of Arts, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Master of Arts, Ewha Womans University
- Doctor of Philosophy, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Academic and Professional Experience
- Associate Professor, Department of Language Science and Technology, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
- Assistant Professor, Department of Language Science and Technology, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Teaching Areas
- Applied Linguistics
- Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language
- Korean Society and Culture
- Kim, S.-A. (in press). Learning to read Chinese characters: From research to practice. In S. Ke, S.-A. Kim, & Y. Hsu (Eds.), Handbook of research on reading Chinese as a global language. Springer.
- Lau, D. K. Y, Kim, S.-A., & Shin, S.-H. (2026). The role of orthographic units and positional consistency in L2 Chinese character writing: Insights from online handwriting tasks. Reading and Writing. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11145-026-10866-6
- Kong, D., Kim, S.-A., & Shin, J. A. (2026). Mandarin relative clause production by second language learners: Subject–object asymmetry and individual differences. Language Learning. https://doi.org/10.1111/lang.70035
- Kim, S.-A., & Sim, S. (2024). The motivation of Hong Kong university students to learn Korean. Teaching Korean as a Foreign Language, 73, 1–28. (in Korean) https://www.kci.go.kr/kciportal/landing/article.kci?arti_id=ART003084724
- Wei, R., Kim, S.-A., & Shin, J.-A. (2022). Structural priming and inverse preference effects in L2 grammaticality judgment and production of English relative clauses. Frontiers in Psychology, 13, Article 845691. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.845691
- Kim, S.-A., & Shin, J.-A. (2018). Character knowledge and reading stages of Chinese as a foreign language. In I. Walker, D. Chan, M. Nagami, & C. Bourguignon (Eds.), New perspectives on the development of communicative and related competence in foreign language education (pp. 181–203). De Gruyter Mouton. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501505034-009
- Kim, S.-A., & Shin, S.-H. (2017). Pronunciation rules of HSK characters: Learning and teaching principles. Hawoo. (in Korean) http://www.hawoo.co.kr/bbs/board.php?bo_table=book&wr_id=511&cateNavCode=1016
- Kim, S.-A. (2017). Korean language and culture education at universities in Hong Kong: Curricula with an example. Journal of Ewha Korean Language and Literature, 42, 5–32. (in Korean) https://www.kci.go.kr/kciportal/landing/article.kci?arti_id=ART002263314
- Kim, S.-A., Packard, J., Christianson, K., Anderson, R. C., & Shin, J.-A. (2016). Orthographic consistency and individual learner differences in second language literacy acquisition. Reading and Writing, 29(7), 1409–1434. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11145-016-9643-y
- Kim, S.-A., & Shin, S.-H. (2015). Consistency of phonetic families and principles of teaching Chinese as a foreign language. Chinese Linguistics, 51, 19–30. (in Chinese) https://ira.lib.polyu.edu.hk/handle/10397/53691
- Kim, S.-A., Christianson, K., & Packard, J. (2015). Working memory in L2 character processing: The case of learning to read Chinese. In Z. Wen, M. B. Mota, & A. McNeill (Eds.), Working memory in second language acquisition and processing (pp. 85–104). Multilingual Matters. https://doi.org/10.21832/9781783093595-009
- 2025 - 2026
Generative artificial intelligence in enhancing Korean speaking and writing skills: For learners of Korean as a foreign language. Korean Studies Grant 2025, Academy of Korean Studies. - 2022 - 2024
Relationships among CFL learners’ character reading and writing skills and morphological knowledge: Comparisons of L1 Vietnamese, Korean, and English learners. Departmental General Research Fund. Department of Language Science and Technology. The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. - 2013 - 2014 & 2015 - 2017
When learning Chinese as a foreign language: Interactions between a native language and the target language (G-YN31 & G-YBLC). Central Research Grant. The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
- 2024 - 2026
Ewha Global Fellow, Ewha Womans University
