Hakyung Sung

About Me

I will soon be joining the Department of Second Language Studies at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa as an Assistant Professor.

I study how second language learners use words and grammatical structures at different levels of proficiency. More broadly, I hope to contribute to the development and validation of empirical measures for learner corpus research. To do this, I use natural language processing to extract and quantify linguistic features from learner corpora, while also building, documenting, and publicly releasing related resources.

My work has so far focused on learners of English and Korean, and I would be happy to talk with students and researchers interested in similar questions involving these or other learner populations.