Upcoming presentations

  • Multilingualism and Indigenous language revitalization in English-language dominant higher education (with Stephen May, Peter Keegan) as part of the AAAL 2026 Wilga Rivers Colloquium: Plurilingual Pedagogies for Linguistic Justice: Moving Beyond Traditional Bilingualism (convenors: Angelica Galante, McGill University & Pramod Sah, The Education University of Hong Kong)

  • Identity development of language teachers with multilingual and/or multiethnic backgrounds (with Danny Lim), 25th International Association for Languages and Intercultural Communication (IALIC) 2025 hybrid conference, Auckland University of Technology (AUT), 21-23 November 2025

  • Language ideologies and their impact on teacher identity and pedagogical practices among multilingual Korean language teachers (with Danny Lim), 14th biennial Korean Studies Association of Australasia (KSAA) conference, ANU, Canberra, 26–28 November 2025

Keynotes

  • Researching bi/multilingualism, (linguistic) discrimination, and education. Keynote speech to be delivered at the Postgraduate Symposium of the Learning and Teaching @ EdUHK Festival 2025 at the Education University of Hong Kong, 5 March 2025.

  • Experiences of linguistic marginalization in South Korea. Keynote speech delivered at the 31st Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference, Monash University. 31 October – 2 November, 2024. 

  • Language in the workplace: Korean immigrants in New Zealand. Keynote speech delivered at the Postgraduate Symposium on Approaches to Multilingualism. University of Sheffield. 9 November, 2020.

  • Heritage language use in New Zealand. Keynote speech delivered at the International Conference on Korean Language Education. Seoul National University. 31 October 31, 2020.

  • Heritage language use and identity. Keynote speech delivered at the 14th Annual New Zealand Association of Korean Schools Conference. Travelodge Wellington. 16 July, 2020.

Recent Conference Presentations

  • Korean language learners’ motivation, demotivation, and remotivation: The Australian and New Zealand contexts. Presentation to be delivered at the 30th American Association of Teachers of Korean (AATK) Annual Conference and Workshop, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 18 - 20 June, 2025.

  • Linguistic discrimination and subordination: North Korean refugees in South Korea. Presentation to be delivered at the 19th International Pragmatics Conference, University of Queensland, 22 - 27 June, 2025.

Recent Invited Presentations

  • Korean language learners’ motivation, demotivation, and remotivation: The Australian and New Zealand contexts. Presentation to be delivered at the 30th American Association of Teachers of Korean (AATK) Annual Conference and Workshop, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 18 - 20 June, 2025.

  • Linguistic discrimination and subordination: North Korean refugees in South Korea. Presentation to be delivered at the 19th International Pragmatics Conference, University of Queensland, 22 - 27 June, 2025.

  • (En)countering linguistic discrimination: Addressing Indigenous language revitalization and linguistic superdiversity in higher education. Presentation delivered at the American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL) Conference, Denver, USA, 22 – 25 March, 2025.  [Organizer for Invited Colloquium ‘(En)countering linguistic discrimination in higher education’]

  • Linguistic discrimination in higher education. Invited seminar delivered at the University College London, London, UK, 4 February, 2025.

  • Linguistic discrimination in higher education. Invited public seminar delivered at the University of Oxford, Oxford, UK, 3 February, 2025.

  • Heritage language speakers, identity and language learning. Invited seminar to be delivered at the workshop “Working Closely with Participants: Ethical Consideration” to be held at the University of Oslo, Norway, 29 January, 2025.

  • De/reconstructing Koreanness: The role of Korean language use. Invited talk as part of the invited colloquium ‘Semiotics of Global Koreanness’. Sociolinguistics Symposium 25. Curtin University, Australia. 24-27 June, 2024. 

  • Identity, agency, and linguistic marginalization in South Korean higher education: Voices of North Korean refugee students. Korean Studies Association of Australasia. 28 May, 2024.

  • Linguistic diversity and discrimination in South Korea. University of Muhammadiyah Malang, Indonesia. 21 May, 2024.

  • Linguistic marginalization and insecurity: Experiences of North Korean refugees in South Korean higher education. Academy of Korean Studies. 10 May, 2024.

  • Addressing linguistic discrimination in (English language-dominant) higher education. Department of Second Language Studies. University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. 22 February, 2024.