{"id":51509,"date":"2020-09-30T15:32:33","date_gmt":"2020-09-30T19:32:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=51509"},"modified":"2025-07-09T10:30:33","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T14:30:33","slug":"kathy-minhye-kim","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/profile\/kathy-minhye-kim\/","title":{"rendered":"Kathy Kim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Kathy Kim is an assistant professor of applied linguistics and director of the Second Language Acquisition Lab at Boston University Wheelock College of Education &amp; Human Development. Her research examines how contextual and instructional interventions shape the development of explicit and implicit L2 knowledge. Her work also spans research inclusivity in web-based experimentation, NLP-supported assessment, and the pedagogical potential of generative AI for Korean pragmatics. She is committed to advancing equity in quantitative research and to examining the construct validity of (psycho)linguistic measures.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Kim is a recipient of the Best of Modern Language Journal award (2019) and has received funding from the National Science Foundation and the AI and Education Faculty Research Grant.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"profile-section-label\">Recent News<\/h3>\n<ul class=\"display-posts-listing\"><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/news\/articles\/2025\/bu-wheelock-welcomes-new-faculty-for-2025\/\">BU Wheelock Welcomes New Faculty for 2025<\/a><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/news\/articles\/2021\/how-second-language-learners-become-proficient\/\">How Second Language Learners Become Proficient<\/a><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/news\/articles\/2020\/six-new-faculty-reflect-on-their-first-month-at-bu-wheelock\/\">BU Wheelock Welcomes Six New Faculty<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n<h3 class=\"profile-section-label\">In the Media<\/h3>\n<ul class=\"display-posts-listing\"><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/2024\/04\/16\/2024-ai-and-ed-initiative-awards\/\">Announcing the 2024 AI and Education Initiative Awards<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":16970,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/51509"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16970"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/51509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83626,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/51509\/revisions\/83626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}