Jeeyoung Ha

Jeeyoung Ahn Ha, Director of the Korean language program (since 2004) at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, specializes in curricular development, language pedagogy and assessment, and teacher training. Actively involved in action research and collaborative projects at all levels, she successfully coordinated team efforts as the Heritage Level leader in the College Korean Curriculum Inspired by National Standards for Korean  project by American Association of Teachers of Korean (AATK) from 2012 to 2015, and gave numerous presentations on standards-based curriculum development and instructional strategies. She also developed the 8-week online Elementary Korean course offered in summer, the semi-adoptive Korean proficiency and placement online test, and the online community Let’s Talk in Korean for learners to practice speaking with Korean native speaker volunteers. She currently serves as Assistant Head in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures and the president of the Midwest Teachers of Korean (MATK). Previously, she served as the Secretary for the ACTFL Korean Special Interest Group (SIG), the Executive Board Member of the AATK (2015-2018), and was on the AATK Korean Honor Society committee, the Center for Language Instruction and Coordination (CLIC) Executive Committee and the Less Commonly Taught Language (LCTL) Business Symposium committee at CLIC. She received certification as ACTFL Oral Proficiency Interview (OPI) Tester and Writing Proficiency Test (WPT) Rater of Korean, and is the co-author of newly published textbooks and workbooks for accelerated and heritage learners, Integrated Korean: Accelerated 1 & 2 (2020) as part of the most popular Korean textbook series in America by KLEAR Textbooks in Korean Language.