Haewon Cho

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About Haewon Cho

Haewon Cho is a Senior Lecturer in Foreign Languages and the Director of the Korean Language Program at the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Pennsylvania. She has extensive teaching experience and has taught all levels of Korean at several institutions in the United States, including the University of Michigan, Middlebury College, and the University of Pennsylvania. She has also taught Korean at the Lauder Institute from 2017-2019, when it inaugurated its Korean language and culture program. She is a certified ACTFL OPI (Oral Proficiency Interview) Tester and WPT (Writing Proficiency Test) Rater.Haewon is an author of multiple textbooks and reference books. They include You Speak Korean, a Korean language textbook series co-authored alongside Dr. Soohee Kim and Dr. Emily Curtis, and Korean Grammar: The Complete Guide to Speaking Korean Naturally, her most recent work — a basic Korean Grammar reference book co-authored alongside the same authors and published by Tuttle Publishing in 2017. Her teaching and research interests include Korean language pedagogy, learner motivation, and teaching with technology, as well as language for professional purposes. Since 2014, she has co-coordinated the Penn Language Group for Global Professional Communication with Claire Babanoury.