Professor Hyun Jung Kim earned an Ed.D. in Applied Linguistics from Teachers College, Columbia University. She currently teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in Second Language Assessment, Second Language Acquisition, Research Methods, English Textbook Studies and Teaching Methods, and Studies in English Curriculum Education. Her research interests include second and foreign language assessment, assessment of speaking ability, language test validation, and discourse analysis. She is a board member of Asia TEFL and the Applied Linguistics Association of Korea.