Dr. Ji Young Shim | American University of Sharjah
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College / Department

College of Arts and Sciences
Department of English

Teaching areas

General Linguistics, Syntax, Psycholinguistics, Bilingualism, Research Methods and Design, Academic Writing, Public Speaking

Research areas

Bilingualism, Code-Switching, Second/Foreign Language Acquisition, Syntax

Education

PhD, Linguistics, The Graduate Center, CUNY, United States, 2013

Professional experience

Postdoctoral Research Associate/lecturer, University of Geneva, Switzerland, 2014 - 2017
Adjunct Instructor, Queens College, NY, United States, 2007 - 2010
Adjunct Professor, Lehman College, NY, United States, 2006 - 2007
Adjunct Professor, Passaic County Community College, NJ, United States, 2003 - 2004

Contact

[email protected]
+971 6 515 2384

Dr. Ji Young Shim

Assistant Professor
PhD, The Graduate Center, CUNY, United States

With an academic background and career in both theoretical and applied linguistics/TESOL, Dr. Ji Young Shim has taught in Linguistics/English/ESL departments at various institutions in the US, Europe and Asia. Her research and teaching interests include syntax, syntax-semantics interface, psycholinguistics, bilingualism and code-switching, and second/foreign language acquisition. She is a recipient of an NSF grant (BCS-1023709) and currently serves as an International Editorial Board member for Studies in Generative Grammar.

Publications

Ji Shim And Sarah Zahaf. The language of subtitles for Arabic-English bilingual speakers in the United Arab Emirates, International Journal Of Arabic-english Studies, 2023
Jinyoung Lee And Ji Shim. A Case Study on the Role of Dialogic Interaction with the Self in an L2 Writing Revision Process, Studies In Foreign Language Education, 2022
Aya Sallam And Ji Shim. Gender-biased English Language in Hip Hop Music, International Journal On Studies In English Language And Literature, 2021
Ji Shim. OV and VO Variation in Code-Switching, 2020
Ji Shim And Tabea Ihsane. A New Outlook of Complementizers, Languages, 2017
Ji Shim, Tabea Ihsane And Maria Parafita Couto. Introducing the Special Issue: Clausal and Nominal Complements in Monolingual and Bilingual Grammars, Languages, 2017
Ji Shim And Tabea Ihsane. English Overt and Null Complementizers, Studies In Generative Grammar, August 2017
Ji Shim. Mixed Verbs in Code-Switching: The Syntax of Light Verbs, Languages, 2016
Ji Shim And Tabea Ihsane. Facts: The interplay between the matrix predicate and its clausal complement, Newcastle And Northumbria Working Papers In Linguistics, 2015

Conference Presentations

Dialogic Interactions in Second Language Writing, Tesol Arabia, March 2023
Determiner asymmetry in Arabic-English code-switching: Testing the MLF Model, Theoretical And Experimental Approaches To Comparative Syntax, February 2023
Implementing dialogic interactions in a second language writing classroom, Hct General Studies Conference, October 2022
The selection of a determiner in Emirati-Arabic English code-switching, Uae Graduate Student Research Conference, March 2022
Code-switching between Emirati Arabic and English, Experimental Arabic Linguistics Conference, 2021
Gender Display in The Lyrics of Hip-hop Songs, Ajl 6, 2021
Word order in code-switching, Department Of Cognitive Sciences Research Seminar, 2021
Gender-biased language in world music, Critical Approaches To Media Discourse, 2020
Case ellipsis in code-switching, 2020 Snu Workshop On Case & Related Issues, October 2020
The Influence of self-response to received peer feedback on the development of logic, clarity, and audience awareness: Sociocognitive perspective, 2019 Alak International Conference, September 2019
Portmanteau sentences in code-switching, Transdisciplinary Approaches To Language Variation 2, 16 February 2019
Portmanteau Constructions in Code-Switching, Linguistic Society Of Korea Conference, Seoul, Korea, June 2018

Grants and sponsorships

Grant, Gulf Arabic-English Code-Switching, AUS, 1 June 2020 - 31 May 2023

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