Hee Joong Choi

Hee Joong Choi is from Seoul, Republic of Korea. He holds a B.A. in Hispanic Language and Literature from Seoul National University (SNU, 2013), where he also graduated with a Linguistics minor. After three years of serving in ROK Navy as a Spanish Instructor and as a Spanish/Korean interpreter in high-level Navy talks, he continued to pursue his studies in Hispanic Linguistics in SNU. In 2019, he earned a M.A. with the thesis focusing on the syntactic derivation of Spanish Split Questions. As a Ph.D. student, Hee Joong has been putting his effort to refine his research in two ways: 1) to broaden the spectrum of meaning in questions from semantic and pragmatic perspectives, and 2) to develop experimental methods that could support his theoretical speculations. His secondary areas of interest include Korean as a Foreign Language (KFL), Portuguese Linguistics, and Intonational Grammar. In Spring of 2021, he completed the Korean Language Teachers Training Program at the Language Education Institute of SNU.