Hee-Sun Kim

Hee-Sun Kim, PhD in Linguistics from Stanford University, is an Advanced Lecturer and Coordinator of the Korean Language Program at Stanford University, where she has taught Korean at all levels since 2003. She previously served as Chair of the Korean Special Interest Group of the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) from 2018 to 2019.

Dr. Kim has been an ACTFL-certified facilitator and tester for the Oral Proficiency Interview (OPI) and Writing Proficiency Test (WPT) in Korean since 2012. She has conducted numerous OPI assessment workshops for K–16 language educators and holds additional certifications in the Interagency Language Roundtable (ILR) proficiency scale, Computerized Oral Proficiency Interview (OPIc), and ACTFL Assessment of Performance Toward Proficiency in Languages (AAPPL).

Her professional service includes quality assurance advising for certified OPI, WPT, and AAPPL testers and raters; participation on advisory committees for Korean language test development and re-norming materials; and service as an Oversight Committee Member for the National Standard Curriculum Project of the American Association of Teachers of Korean (AATK).

Her research and professional interests focus on technology-enhanced language education, proficiency-based curriculum development, and the design, validation, and implementation of high-stakes language assessments.