Sugene Kim
Biographic Data
| ID | 6176084 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sugene Kim |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sugene |
| FAMILY NAME | Kim |
| SIGNATURE | KIM S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Department of English Studies, Nagoya University of Commerce & Business, Nisshin, Japan |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9514-7416 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Script Ideologies in Japan
The Japanese writing system employs three scripts—kanji, hiragana, and katakana—each serving distinct communicative functions. Although katakana is conventionally associated with loanwords, it conveys social meanings that extend beyond lexical borrowing. This study examines how these meanings were publicly contested in user responses to a tweet by a prominent Japanese politician regarding katakana English use in pandemic communication. Drawing on…
Translingualism on display
This paper is part of a larger ethnographic study that examines how English linguistic resources are localised and publicly recontextualised in the linguistic landscape of South Korea. A visual ethnographic approach is used to analyse 1,175 cases of commercial signage collected across the country. Focusing on business naming practices, the paper examines English and Korean morphosyntactic resources that are mobilised in business names while remai…
Katakana English in Japan
This study examines Japanese public attitudes toward the use of English loanwords rendered in katakana in public health discourse during the COVID-19 pandemic. Focusing on reactions to a tweet by Japanese politician Taro Kono criticising the use of katakana English in public-facing messages, the analysis draws on 1,417 comments posted by X users. These comments capture spontaneous public responses under conditions of uncertainty, offering insight…
Reflections on translanguaging as a pedagogical framework in Japanese higher education
This study employed a mixed-methods approach to explore the attitudes of second language (L2) learners and L2 teachers toward the use of learners’ first language (L1) in L2 classrooms. Interview data were collected from Japanese college students (n = 91) and their English teachers (n = 9) to identify salient themes related to the reasons for supporting or opposing teachers’ use of L1. Additionally, data on the students’ English proficiency and ex…
English as a lingua franca in Japan
This study examines L2 speakers’ accent attitudes in relation to their linguistic profile and current practices, recruiting 107 multilingual postgraduate students of 34 different nationalities enrolled in leading research universities in Japan. The participants completed a survey regarding their perceptions of different English varieties in English as a lingua franca (ELF) contexts. Interviews were additionally conducted to solicit in-depth persp…
Ehh? Order through kiosk? What’s that?’ Public attitudes towards the excessive Anglicisation of commerce in South Korea
This study reports on an analysis of user-generated comments in response to a newspaper article criticising an overwhelmingly Anglicised user interface in self-ordering kiosks in South Korea. A total of 1,206 comments were subjected to qualitative analysis to identify salient themes reflecting the public’s attitudes towards the practice and desirable adjustments. The results showed polarised responses, with ‘strongly nationalistic’ language attit…
‘Who expresses an honest opinion as it stands in Japan?’
This study explores Japanese students’ perceptions of and experiences with peer review in English writing classes. While the benefits of peer review for second language (L2) students are generally acknowledged, some studies have claimed that students from Asian cultures are predisposed to not benefit fully from this process because they tend to refuse to provide negative feedback to maintain group harmony. To verify these observations and extend …
‘Nabewa nabedayo!’
This paper is part of an ongoing research project that examines translanguaging practice in predominantly monolingual social domains, and it reports on the views and practices of non-Japanese English teachers’ translanguaging in Japanese higher education. Fifteen faculty members from four universities were interviewed about their perspectives on translanguaging and their reasons for supporting or rejecting the practice. Additionally, the particip…
Japanese L2 learners’ translanguaging practice in written peer feedback
Although peer review is widely adopted in tertiary L2 writing classes, students’ use of different languages – or translanguaging – in written peer feedback remains underresearched. Three studies that have explored the issue – Yu and Lee (2014), Yu (2016), and Yeh (2018) – were all conducted on Chinese-speaking participants, suggesting the need for studies in different contexts for a broader generalisability of the findings. To bridge the research…
Blurring the boundaries
A brief stroll about the cityscape of South Korea (henceforth ‘Korea’) testifies to Curtin's (2014) presumptive cosmopolitanism, whereby locals are expected to possess a high degree of competence in linguistically accommodating newcomers or world travellers by using English or other international languages in the linguistic landscape. One can easily spot English monolingual, Korean–English bilingual, and multilingual signs for ‘advertising billbo…
‘Sejong the Great would turn in his grave!’
The newly renovated Seoul Express Bus Terminal, which reopened at the end of 2019, has caused an uproar among the South Korean public. The fact that its ticket booth sign is written only in English – ‘TICKETS’ – was pointed out by one Twitter user (see Figure 1), and the message went viral among internet users. It took only a week or so for the issue to make headlines in Yonhap News – one of the major news agencies in South Korea (hereafter ‘Kore…
‘Two rules are at play when it comes to none ’
This paper identifies discrepancies between prescriptive grammar rules concerning the number of the indefinite pronoun none and the actual use of this pronoun in modern academic English as shown in the Michigan Corpus of Academic Spoken English (MICASE) and Michigan Corpus of Upper-level Student Papers (MICUSP). Whereas prescriptive rules state that the number of none is determined by its referent or by the user's desired effect, the analyses of …
EFL Learners’ Dictionary Consultation Behaviour During the Revision Process to Correct Collocation Errors
This article reports on the results of think-aloud protocols that describe Korean college students’ dictionary consultation behaviour in self-editing collocation errors. Four participants’ verbal data were collected before and after the four-step instruction targeting collocation dictionary skills. The analyses of the protocol data obtained before the instruction showed that EFL learners rely heavily on checking example sentences in a bilingualis…
EFL Learners’ Dictionary Consultation Behaviour During the Revision Process to Correct Collocation Errors
This article reports on the results of think-aloud protocols that describe Korean college students’ dictionary consultation behaviour in self-editing collocation errors. Four participants’ verbal data were collected before and after the four-step instruction targeting collocation dictionary skills. The analyses of the protocol data obtained before the instruction showed that EFL learners rely heavily on checking example sentences in a bilingualis…
English as a lingua franca in Japan
This study examines L2 speakers’ accent attitudes in relation to their linguistic profile and current practices, recruiting 107 multilingual postgraduate students of 34 different nationalities enrolled in leading research universities in Japan. The participants completed a survey regarding their perceptions of different English varieties in English as a lingua franca (ELF) contexts. Interviews were additionally conducted to solicit in-depth persp…
Ehh? Order through kiosk? What’s that?’ Public attitudes towards the excessive Anglicisation of commerce in South Korea
This study reports on an analysis of user-generated comments in response to a newspaper article criticising an overwhelmingly Anglicised user interface in self-ordering kiosks in South Korea. A total of 1,206 comments were subjected to qualitative analysis to identify salient themes reflecting the public’s attitudes towards the practice and desirable adjustments. The results showed polarised responses, with ‘strongly nationalistic’ language attit…
EFL Learners’ Dictionary Consultation Behaviour During the Revision Process to Correct Collocation Errors
This article reports on the results of think-aloud protocols that describe Korean college students’ dictionary consultation behaviour in self-editing collocation errors. Four participants’ verbal data were collected before and after the four-step instruction targeting collocation dictionary skills. The analyses of the protocol data obtained before the instruction showed that EFL learners rely heavily on checking example sentences in a bilingualis…
‘Two rules are at play when it comes to none ’
This paper identifies discrepancies between prescriptive grammar rules concerning the number of the indefinite pronoun none and the actual use of this pronoun in modern academic English as shown in the Michigan Corpus of Academic Spoken English (MICASE) and Michigan Corpus of Upper-level Student Papers (MICUSP). Whereas prescriptive rules state that the number of none is determined by its referent or by the user's desired effect, the analyses of …
‘Sejong the Great would turn in his grave!’
The newly renovated Seoul Express Bus Terminal, which reopened at the end of 2019, has caused an uproar among the South Korean public. The fact that its ticket booth sign is written only in English – ‘TICKETS’ – was pointed out by one Twitter user (see Figure 1), and the message went viral among internet users. It took only a week or so for the issue to make headlines in Yonhap News – one of the major news agencies in South Korea (hereafter ‘Kore…
‘Nabewa nabedayo!’
This paper is part of an ongoing research project that examines translanguaging practice in predominantly monolingual social domains, and it reports on the views and practices of non-Japanese English teachers’ translanguaging in Japanese higher education. Fifteen faculty members from four universities were interviewed about their perspectives on translanguaging and their reasons for supporting or rejecting the practice. Additionally, the particip…
Japanese L2 learners’ translanguaging practice in written peer feedback
Although peer review is widely adopted in tertiary L2 writing classes, students’ use of different languages – or translanguaging – in written peer feedback remains underresearched. Three studies that have explored the issue – Yu and Lee (2014), Yu (2016), and Yeh (2018) – were all conducted on Chinese-speaking participants, suggesting the need for studies in different contexts for a broader generalisability of the findings. To bridge the research…
Blurring the boundaries
A brief stroll about the cityscape of South Korea (henceforth ‘Korea’) testifies to Curtin's (2014) presumptive cosmopolitanism, whereby locals are expected to possess a high degree of competence in linguistically accommodating newcomers or world travellers by using English or other international languages in the linguistic landscape. One can easily spot English monolingual, Korean–English bilingual, and multilingual signs for ‘advertising billbo…
‘Who expresses an honest opinion as it stands in Japan?’
This study explores Japanese students’ perceptions of and experiences with peer review in English writing classes. While the benefits of peer review for second language (L2) students are generally acknowledged, some studies have claimed that students from Asian cultures are predisposed to not benefit fully from this process because they tend to refuse to provide negative feedback to maintain group harmony. To verify these observations and extend …
English as a lingua franca in Japan
This study examines L2 speakers’ accent attitudes in relation to their linguistic profile and current practices, recruiting 107 multilingual postgraduate students of 34 different nationalities enrolled in leading research universities in Japan. The participants completed a survey regarding their perceptions of different English varieties in English as a lingua franca (ELF) contexts. Interviews were additionally conducted to solicit in-depth persp…
Ehh? Order through kiosk? What’s that?’ Public attitudes towards the excessive Anglicisation of commerce in South Korea
This study reports on an analysis of user-generated comments in response to a newspaper article criticising an overwhelmingly Anglicised user interface in self-ordering kiosks in South Korea. A total of 1,206 comments were subjected to qualitative analysis to identify salient themes reflecting the public’s attitudes towards the practice and desirable adjustments. The results showed polarised responses, with ‘strongly nationalistic’ language attit…
Reflections on translanguaging as a pedagogical framework in Japanese higher education
This study employed a mixed-methods approach to explore the attitudes of second language (L2) learners and L2 teachers toward the use of learners’ first language (L1) in L2 classrooms. Interview data were collected from Japanese college students (n = 91) and their English teachers (n = 9) to identify salient themes related to the reasons for supporting or opposing teachers’ use of L1. Additionally, data on the students’ English proficiency and ex…
Script Ideologies in Japan
The Japanese writing system employs three scripts—kanji, hiragana, and katakana—each serving distinct communicative functions. Although katakana is conventionally associated with loanwords, it conveys social meanings that extend beyond lexical borrowing. This study examines how these meanings were publicly contested in user responses to a tweet by a prominent Japanese politician regarding katakana English use in pandemic communication. Drawing on…
Translingualism on display
This paper is part of a larger ethnographic study that examines how English linguistic resources are localised and publicly recontextualised in the linguistic landscape of South Korea. A visual ethnographic approach is used to analyse 1,175 cases of commercial signage collected across the country. Focusing on business naming practices, the paper examines English and Korean morphosyntactic resources that are mobilised in business names while remai…
Katakana English in Japan
This study examines Japanese public attitudes toward the use of English loanwords rendered in katakana in public health discourse during the COVID-19 pandemic. Focusing on reactions to a tweet by Japanese politician Taro Kono criticising the use of katakana English in public-facing messages, the analysis draws on 1,417 comments posted by X users. These comments capture spontaneous public responses under conditions of uncertainty, offering insight…
Linguistics (8 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (6 works) · EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning (5 works) · Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity (5 works) · Mathematics education (5 works) · Political science (4 works) · Second Language Learning and Teaching (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works)