Junghwa Kim
Junghwa Kim
Assistant Professor
Multilingual writing, Writing Across Curriculum and Writing In the Discipline, Collaborative Writing, Learning Transfer
Dr. Junghwa Kim is a Term Assistant Professor in the Department of English at George Mason University Korea. She is an applied linguist specializing in multilingual writing, writing theory and practice, and graduate research writing. Prior to joining George Mason Korea in the Spring 2025, she had extensive teaching experience on teaching First-Year Composition, graduate research writing, and TESOL courses at universities in the US and South Korea. After her doctoral study, she taught academic writing, thesis/dissertation writing, and advanced research communication to undergraduate and graduate students as a lecturer at the University of California, Irvine and an instructor at Arizona State University.
Her research areas include designing writing curricular for multilingual learners and effective teaching practices for Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) and Writing in the Discipline (WID), advancing methodological and theoretical approaches in various EAP classrooms. She has presented her research work at major international conferences and served as an organizing committee at American Association of Applied Linguistics and Symposium of Second Language Writing.
Current Research
Dr. Kim's research examines pedagogical approaches for multilingual learners in English for Academic Purposes (EAP) and English for Specific Purposes (ESP) contexts, contributing to both classroom practice and theory. Her current work focuses on research writing strategies involving generative AI, multimodal composition, curriculum design for Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) and Writing in the Disciplines (WID), and learning transfer among advanced multilingual writers. A second strand of her research addresses language variation and its consequences for writers: World Englishes and standard language ideology in academic settings, translingual and intercultural rhetorical practices in cross-cultural academic communication, and the assessment of multilingual writing proficiency, including rater judgment, the construct validity of writing measures, and equitable evaluation of multilingual writing.
Grants and Fellowships
2026 Faculty Research Development Award, George Mason University Korea ($4000)
2025 Faculty Research Development Award. George Mason University Korea ($4000)
2024 Professional Development Grant, University of California, Irvine ($2500)
2023 Online Course Development DTEI Active Learning and Research Lap, University of California, Irvine ($5000)
2023 Professional Development Grant, University of California, Irvine ($2700)
2020 Professional Development Grant, University of California, Irvine ($1200)
2019 Summer Research Grant. Arizona State University, April 2019 ($6500)
Courses Taught
Undergraduate:
ENGH 101 Composition
ENGH 100 Composition for Multilingual Writers
Advanced-level Academic Research Writing
Second Language Acquisition Theory
Multimedia Language Teaching
Academic Reading and Vocabulary
Graduate:
Advanced Academic Writing
Thesis/Dissertation Writing
Advanced English Communication and Research
Education
Dr. Kim earned her Ph.D. in Linguistics/ Applied Linguistics from Arizona State University specializing in multilingual writing. She holds a M.A. in English Linguistics and TESOL from Korea University and a B.A. in English Education, and B.A. in Home Economics in Human Ecology Education from Korea University, Seoul in Korea.
Recent Presentations
“Global Languages and Communication Graduate Writing Workshop on preparing for Job Application” GLC Graduate Workshop Series February 14th, 2024.
“Investigating the influence of Chat GPT on academic writing in arguments and learning outcomes of undergraduate students” Society for Social Studies of Science, Honolulu, November 10th 2023.
“Navigating Collaborative Terrain: Insights into Multilingual Graduate Writing Practices in Interdisciplinary Research” The 19th Symposium on Second Language Writing, Tempe, Arizona, October 28th 2023.
“Examining the literacy development of a multilingual learners' English writing in a non-classroom context” The 18th Symposium on Second Language Writing, Tempe, Arizona, November 15th 2019.