SLAT is proud to announce that one of our doctoral minor students, Taehyeong Kim, has received one of the inaugural College of Humanities GAT Award for Teaching Excellence! Taehyeong is a GAT in the Department of Spanish & Portuguese. This award is intended to honor COH Ph.D. students early in their studies who have demonstrated outstanding promise in teaching and who have demonstrated a committed and sustained effort to ensure the quality of their students' learning experiences.
Taehyeong is a third-year Ph.D. student in Hispanic Linguistics, also pursuing a Ph.D. minor in Second Language Acquisition and Teaching. He received a Bachelor of Social Science and a Bachelor of Arts in Spanish from Hankuk University of Foreign Studies and holds a Master of Arts in Hispanic Language and Literature from Seoul National University. His primary research interests in Hispanic Linguistics revolve around Spanish phonology and phonetics, in particular, syllable structure, OCP, phonological processing, syntax-phonology interface, and multilingualism. To read more about this award and the other recipients, please look at this link.
Join us in congratulating Taehyeong on his outstanding achievement!