Jiwon Hwang, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Asian and Asian American Studies
Ph.D. Stony Brook University, 2011
Topic Areas: Interlanguage phonology, second language acquisition, speech perception,
speech accommodation, Korean phonetics/phonology
Office: 1128 Humanities
Email: jiwon.hwang@stonybrook.edu
Brief Bio:
Dr. Jiwon Hwang is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Asian and Asian American Studies at
Stony Brook University, where she teaches all levels of Korean language courses and
Korean linguistics courses. Her research interests lie in phonetics, phonology and
psycholinguistics, drawing data mainly from second language learners. The main goal
of her research is to investigate characteristics of L2 speech, to understand the
mechanisms underlying L2 production and perception, and to examine socio-cultural
and cognitive factors associated with L2 learning.
