Kent A. Lee

Projects & portfolio

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An English professor in Korea.

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Kent (Kenton) A. Lee’s Projects & Portfolio

An English Professor in Busan, Korea, interested in technology, technical writing, linguistics, instructional design, research, data analysis, and learning new things.

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Writing projects

Professional, academic, and technical writing & content creation

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Coaching SOP

Standard Operating Procedures manual for university pedagogical coaching in Korea

Coaching SOP

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Citation guides

Rather complete guides for citations & references in APA, Chicago Manual of Style, and MLA.

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Understanding your teaching philosophy

Understanding your teaching style, implicit beliefs & practices in college teaching, and writing teaching statements: Articulating your teaching philosophy

Course and instructional design

Courses and workshops at two universities that I designed from scratch:

  1. Courses from KU & PKNU: Academic Writing; Professional and academic conversation and discourse

Other guides and manuals

  1. Writing Guides site for various citation and referencing systems
  2. English lecture expressions
  3. English word choice problems
  4. Guide to lecturing and teaching in English
  5. Using group activities
  6. Course, syllabus, lesson design
  7. Formative assessment
  8. Grading rubrics
  9. More pedagogy guides here

Data analysis & research projects

Some of my projects relevant to data analysis and research

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Professional development program for grad students

I created a professional development program for graduate students in Korea. Survey research was conducted to evaluate the program, participants’ needs, and their English language skills.

Methods: Correlation & logistic regression in SAS; Results: Three papers published, and program improvements
Blog Post

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Community group demographic analysis

A demographic survey that I designed and then analyzed for a community organization in Seoul.

Methods: Survey development, correlation & logistic regression in SAS; Results: Detailed reports helped stakeholders to better understand attendees, their needs, and degree of satisfaction.
Blog Post

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Student motivation in EMI

Korean students’ ability to handle courses taught in English, efficacy, & motivation.

Methods: Survey data collection, statistical analysis in SAS; Results: Conference presentations on student difficulties & recommendations
Blog Post

Other projects

Pedagogical coaching

Coaching issues among new university professors in Korea: pedagogy, professional development, and English skills. Results: Paper published in 2023. Blog Post

English pronunciation

A project on improving Korean students’ English pronunciation.

Methods: Classroom experimental research design, hierarchical linear modeling in R;

Results: Published research article; more & better teaching materials. Blog Post

Writing connectors project

Analysis of writings of Korean & Chinese students showed overuse & underuse patterns for English connectives.

Methods: Loglinear regression in SAS;

Results: Two published research papers. Blog Post

Noun phrase project

Data on noun phrase patterns from students to be analyzed; also, large language corpus data set to be analyzed for NP patterns.

Methods: Loglinear regression in SAS;

Methods: Pragmatic judgment questionnaires, statistical analysis to be conducted in SQL and R; previous studies with loglinear regression in SAS.

Results: Several previous studies published; two major papers to be submitted in later 2024; better teaching materials. Blog Post

Kaggle: Employement data set

Analysis of a small Kaggle data set on employement patterns of an Indian company.

Methods: Logistic regression analysis and plots in R;

Results: A report with data summaries and R code. Report

Zoom fatigue

A survey study found effects of Zoom fatigue for online classes during the pandemic, which was influenced by personality factors.

Methods: Correlation in R;

Results: Conference presentation, recommendations for future online classes. Blog Post

Others

About two dozen research articles published over my academic career. My published papers

Curriculum Vitae

Computer & software skills:

  • Linux (Ubuntu, Fedora, KDE), Windows
  • Excel, R, SAS, SQL, regex, LibreOffice, Obsidian
  • HTML, CSS
  • Familiar with MediaWiki, WordPress, DaVinci Resolve, Latex, GIMP, Jupyter, Anaconda, Visual Studio
  • Currently learning Docker, SQL/MySQL, GitHub, Tableau & Python

Research skills:

  • Statistics: Correlation / regression; logistic/loglinear regression, hierarchical linear modeling, PCA, various multivariate methods, chi-square analysis, data cleaning
  • Soft skills: Analytical, problem solving, & critical thinking skills, hypothesis testing (in social science research); Strong verbal & written communication skills (from classroom teaching & research)
  • Research & analysis: Researched and published two dozen research articles in academic journals, using quantative and/or qualitative research, in linguistics and education. Research presentations at over thirty academic conferences. Comfortable with working in many different theories, paradigms and models in social sciences and other fields.
  • Language skills: Native English speaker; strong verbal and writing skills, including research and technical writing. 3A level in German; 1A-1B levels in Spanish, French, Korean, Mandarin, Latin.

Research

  1. Research areas: Applied linguistics, phonology, delimiters (def./indef. articles), pragmatics, psycholinguistics
  2. All publications
  3. Lee, K. (2023). Improving English pronunciation accuracy among Korean adult learners. Modern English Education 24(0) 272-283. DOI:10.18095/meeso.2023.24.1.272.
  4. Lee, K. A. & Lee, H. (2023). Faculty coaching and faculty needs in Korean universities. Journal of Pan-Pacific Association of Applied Linguistics, 27(2), 27-52). http://www.paal.kr/html/sub04_03.asp
  5. Lee, K. A. & Lee, H. (2023). Faculty Coaching and Faculty Needs in Korean Universities. Journal of Pan-Pacific Association of Applied Linguistics, 27(2), 27-52). http://www.paal.kr/html/sub04_03.asp
  6. Lee, K. (2023). A comparative analysis of English nuclear stress principles in conversation. Topics in Linguistics, 24(1), 18-42. doi.10.2478/topling-2023-0002
  7. Lee, K. (2021). Evidence for ‘like’ as a focus marker. Language Research, 57(1), 1-29. http://doi.org/10.30961/lr.2021.57.1.1
  8. Lee, K.(2021). Teaching articles: Addressing university students’ misconceptions. Journal of Learner-centered Curriculum and Instruction, 21(2), 1-25. http://dx.doi.org/10.22251/jlcci.2021.21.2.1
  9. Lee, K., & Lee, H. (2018). An EAP professional development program for graduate students in Korea. TESOL Quarterly, 52(4), 1097-1107. https://doi.org/10.1002/tesq.447
  10. Lee, K., & Lee, H. (2018). Korean Graduate Students’ Self-perceptions of English Skills and Needs in an English-medium Instruction Context. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 39(8), 715-728. https://doi.org/10.1080/01434632.2018.1438442
  11. Lee, K. (2017). A “the” or the “a”? L2 learner problems and patterns. Korea TESOL Journal, 13(2), 25-48.
  12. Lee, K., & Lee, H. (2017). Korean graduate students’ perceptions of guidance and professional development. Higher Education, 73(5), 725–740. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10734-016-9988-9
  13. Lee, K. (2013). Koreans’ use of English connectors and topic management in writing. English Language Teaching, 25(2), 81-103.

Personal bio

  • Home base: Currently based in Searcy, Arkansas, while residing and working in Busan, Korea
  • Previous locations: Grew up in Amarillo, Texas. Also lived in: West Lafayatte, IN; Hamburg, Germany; Urbana-Champaign, IL; Seoul, Korea.
  • College: Purdue University (B.A., German)
  • Graduate School: University of Illinois: M.A., Linguistics; M.A., TESOL (Teaching English as a Second/Other Language, or applied linguistics); Ph.D., Educational Psychology; doctoral research focus: psycholinguistics