Describing and Teaching the Grammar of Foreign Languages

On May 29 and 30, 2025, the PLIDAM team organized a symposium in Seoul (South Korea), in collaboration with Seoul National University.

PLIDAM-LSK-KALT

International Conference

Describing and Teaching the Grammar of Foreign Languages

Date | May 29-30, 2025

Room 302 / 309, Shinyang Humanities Information Center, Seoul National University

 

May 29, 2025

09:20-09:50 Registration

09:50-10:00 Opening

Opening address LSK president Jung-Soo MOK (University of Seoul), Yoon-shin KIM (Incheon National University)

 

Keynote Speech

Session Chair: Jin-Ok KIM (Université Paris Cité)

10:00-11:00

Thomas SZENDE (INALCO), Un rapport particulier au monde : le hongrois et sa double conjugaison

11:00-12:00

Chai-Song HONG (Seoul National University), Typological characteristics of Korean reciprocal construction

12:00-14:00 Lunch

 

Session 1: Teaching Foreign Language Grammar

Teaching foreign language grammar (1)

Session Chair: So-Young PARK (Pusan National University)

14:00-14:30

Jin-Ok KIM (Université Paris Cité), Acquisition des expressions référentielles en coréen par des apprenants francophones : étude préliminaire

14:30-15:00

Jae-Hoon YEON (SOAS University of London), Teaching Korean Relative Clauses: Implications from Applied Linguistics

15:00-15:30

Soon-Haeng KANG (Ca' Foscari University of Venice), A Study of Grammatical Description and Pedagogical Strategies for Teaching Korean Past Tenses to Italian Speakers

15:30-16:00

Shin-Tae KANG (INALCO), Retour d'expérience : The flipped classroom in teaching Korean as a foreign language grammar in a university context

16:00-16:30 Break time

Teaching foreign language grammar (2)

Session Chair: Hyun-Jo YOU (Chungnam National University)

16:30-17:00

Sibel BERK (INALCO), Reflections on the design of an Assimil method: "Learning Turkish"

17:00-17:30

Monika SZIRMAI (Hiroshima International University), Teaching English verbal tenses to Japanese students

17:30-18:00

George ALAO (INALCO), Using Yorùbá dùn bí oyin to teach Yorùbá as a foreign language: grammatical challenges in a first-semester practice class

 

Session 2: Grammatical description based on linguistic typology

Grammatical description based on linguistic typology (1)

Session Chair: Yoon-shin KIM (Incheon National University)

14:00-14:30

Tae-In KIM (Chungbuk National University), A Typological Study of Finger Names: Focusing on Korean

14:30-15:00

TAN HUI (University of Seoul), The psychi-verb construction in Korean and its translation in Chinese

15:00-15:30

SHI YUE ‧ Jung-Soo MOK (University of Seoul), A Study on the Byeollo (particularly)+Ida (be) Construction

15:30-16:00

Seo-In SHIN (Hallym University), A Critical Study on the Sentence Constituent Analysis in Korean Sentences

16:00-16:30 Break time

Grammatical description based on linguistic typology (2)

Session Chair: Tae-In KIM (Chungbuk National University)

16:30-17:00

Dong-Ju CHOI (Yeungnam University), Rethinking Figurative Expressions for Time in Korean - Focusing on '앞/뒤 (front/back)'

17:00-17:30

Jin-Ho PARK (Seoul National University), Parallelism between affix and clitic positions

17:30-18:00

Ryang-Jin KIM (KyungHee University), The syntactic structure of the verb '있다'

 

May 30, 2025

09:30-10:00 Registration

 

Teaching foreign language grammar (3)

Session Chair: Keon-Hee KIM (Kangwon National University)

10:00-10:30

Jing GUO (INALCO), Teaching the oral register of Chinese

10:30-11:00

Hyun-Ju KANG (Honam University), Study on Korean spoken grammar as a construct of assessing speaking

11:00-11:30

Michel LIU (INALCO), Teaching Chinese grammar through translation

11:30-12:00

Maurya SHIVANGI, Dong-Eun Lee (Kookmin University), Bridging Syntax: A Contrastive and Task-Based Approach to L3 Korean Grammar for Hindi Learners

12:00-14:00 Lunch

 

Keynote Speech

Session Chair: Jung-Soo MOK (University of Seoul)

14:00-15:00

Jung-Ku PARK (Seoul National University), Teaching foreign language grammar based on linguistic typology

15:00-15:10 Break time

 

Session 1: Teaching Foreign Language Grammar

Teaching foreign language grammar (4)

Session Chair: Tae-Woo Kim (Pusan National University)

15:10-15:40

Shahzaman HAQUE (INALCO), L'innovation pédagogique dans l'enseignement de l'ourdou : Bilans et défis.

15:40-16:10

Seung-Yeon LEE (Sahmyook University), A Study on the Acquisition of Modal Adverbs by Korean Language Learners: Based on a Longitudinal Corpus Analysis of Beginner and Intermediate Learners' Spoken Data

16:10-16:30 Break time

16:30-17:00

Daniel CHAN (National University of Singapore), The use of artificial intelligence chatbots to support grammar learning in French as a foreign language

17:00-17:30

Jin-Young CHOI (Luxembourg KSI), Woon-Ho CHOI (Mokpo National University), A Corpus-Based Analysis of Korean Sentence-Final Endings '-ney' and 'tela(ko)' Toward Improved Pedagogical Approaches

 

Session 2: Grammatical description based on linguistic typology

Grammatical description based on linguistic typology (3)

Session Chair: Jeong-Up DO (Seoul National University)

10:30-11:00

Tae-Woo KIM (Pusan National University), Honorific concord in Korean

11:00-11:30

Bo-Ram RYU (Hankuk University of Foreign Studies), A Contrastive Study on Body Action Middle between Korean and Turkish

11:30-12:00

Jong-Myung KIM (Hongik University), Wh- questions in French - with special reference to its wh-in-situ question and a comparison with other Romance languages

Grammatical description based on linguistic typology (4)

Session Chair: Cheon-Hak KIM (University of Seoul)

15:10-15:40

Keon-Hee KIM (Kangwon National University), The negative and affirmative through the advent of multiple negative elements

15:40-16:10

Abdelbari Nouran Hamdy (Kookmin University), A Study on the Acquisition Errors of Korean Negative Prefixes ('불부(不)', '비(非)', '무(無)', '미(未)') Among Egyptian Arabic-Speaking Learners

16:10-16:30 Break time

16:30-17:00

Chul-Woo PARK (Anyang University), An Integrated Study on the Meaning and Grammatical Function of the Korean Auxiliary Particle -(i)na

17:00-17:30

Dae-Sik JEONG (Pusan National University), A Theoretical Study on the Formation Process of Korean Idiomatic Expressions

 

Closing

Byeong-Kwu KANG (Sogang University)

17:30-17:40

Jung-Ku PARK (Seoul National University, KALT President)

Closing Remarks