Sunyoung Ahn

• LING 2202 - Multilingualism 
• LING 3880 - Second Language Acquisition 
• LING 4920/7920 - Emotions in Second Language Processing

My research and teaching involve second language acquisition. How a second language is learned and processed according to ages of acquisition, learning contexts, living environments, etc. I am interested in examining a variety of second language learners including immigrants, college students, and heritage language learners through psycholinguistic approaches.

• PhD (Second Language Acquisition), University of Maryland, 2015

Research interests

• Second language acquisition
• Bilingual language processing
• Emotion and multilingualism
• Heritage language development
• Age effects in language acquisition and attrition
• Korean as a second/heritage language

Research affiliations/groups

• Board member - Applied Linguistics Association of Korea

• Chang, B. C., & Ahn, S. (2023). "Examining the role of phoneme frequency in first language perceptual attrition." Languages, 8(1), 53. DOI:10.3390/languages8010053
• Ahn, S., & Jiang, N. (2023). Can adult learners sense L2 emotional words automatically? The role of L2 use on the emotional Stroop effect. Second Language Research, 39(4), 1265-1278. DOI: 10.1177/02676583221131256
• Ahn, S., & Chang, C. B. (2022). "Emotion word development in bilingual children living in majority and minority contexts." Applied Linguistics, 43(5), 845–866. DOI: 10.1093/applin/amab071
• Ahn, S., & Jiang, N. (2018). "Automatic semantic integration during L2 sentential reading. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition 21(2), 375–383." DOI: 10.1017/S1366728917000256
• Ahn, S., Chang, C. B., DeKeyser, R., & Lee-Ellis, S. (2017). "Age effects in first language attrition: Speech perception by Korean-English bilinguals. Language Learning 67(3), 694–733." DOI: 10.1111/lang.12252

• 2022, 2023 - Development Grants, Faculty of Arts, University of Manitoba
• 2019-2021 - National Research Foundation of Korea
• 2019 - Academy of Korean Studies Fellowship
• 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018 - Distinction in Teaching Award, Harvard University
• 2015 - Excellent Student Paper Award, 20th American Association of Teachers of Korean Conference