Minjin Kim

Dr. Minjin Kim serves as an Instructor of Korean in the Department of Modern Languages at the University of Mississippi, College of Liberal Arts. With over a decade of teaching experience across K-12 and undergraduate levels in both Korea and the U.S., she instructs comprehensive Korean language courses and graduate applied linguistics programs.

Her academic credentials include:

• Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics from Pennsylvania State University (2025)
• M.A. in Foreign Language Education from Seoul National University (2018)

Research expertise centers on quantitative and computational approaches to language acquisition:

• Corpus Linguistics: Large-scale analysis of syntactic patterns and metadiscourse in L2 contexts
• AI Integration: Pioneering studies on ChatGPT for rhetorical analysis and language learning
• Academic Language Development: Focusing on English for Academic Purposes and disciplinary writing
• Technology-Mediated Pedagogy: Designing intelligent systems for computer-assisted language instruction

Her 2019-2024 publications reveal a strategic shift toward AI-driven methodologies, with increasing emphasis on natural language processing applications in language analysis. Collaborative work appears in top-tier journals including The Modern Language Journal and English for Specific Purposes, demonstrating methodological innovation in corpus-based second language research.