Publications

Published/Forthcoming

Corpora

Larsson, T., Biber, D., Kim, T., & Holmberg, A. (accepted). Is casual conversation linguistically similar to other spoken registers? Corpora.

Under review

Kim, T. (under review). Tracking developmental trajectories of noun phrase complexity in L2 English academic writing: Frequency and lexical realizations. Submitted for publication in Journal of Second Language Writing.

Kim, T., Larsson, T., Kaatari, H., Wang, Y., & Sundqvist, P. (under review). Extending and evaluating the measure of lexical diversity across word classes. Submitted for publication in TESOL Quarterly.

Kaatari, H., Larsson, T., Wang, Y., Sundqvist, P., & Kim, T. (under review). The impact of extramural English activities on lexical complexity in L2 writing. Submitted for publication in Studies in Second Language Acquisition.

Wang, Y., Kaatari, H., Larsson, T., Kim, T., & Sundqvist, P. (under review). Exploring the relationship between L2 learners’ extramural English activities and phraseological complexity in their written production. Submitted for publication in ITL-International Journal of Applied Linguistics.

In preparation

Kim, T., Biber, D., Reppen, R., & Larsson, T. (in preparation). Exploring the intersection of phraseological complexity and grammatical productivity: Do lexical phrases develop into grammatical structures as learners begin to produce specialized written registers?

Holmberg Sjöling, C., & Kim, T. (in preparation). Introducing an index for analysis of grammatical diversity in writing.

Reppen, R., Kim, T., & Holmberg Sjöling, C. (in preparation). Writing trajectories of grammatical complexity in L1 children’s writing.

Participation in grant-funded research projects

Research assistantship: The ComplEExity Project: Swedish secondary school students’ use of Extramural English (EE) and its impact on L2 writing development
Funded by the Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation

Peer-reviewed conference presentations

Holmberg Sjöling, C., & Kim, T. (2025, October 22–24). Introducing an index for analysis of grammatical diversity in writing. [Paper presentation]. Learner Corpus Research Graduate Conference (LCRGrad 2025), Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany

Kim, T., Biber, D., Reppen, R., & Larsson, T. (2025, September 25–28). Exploring the intersection of phraseological and grammatical complexity: Do lexical phrases develop into grammatical structures? [Paper presentation]. Second Language Research Forum 2025 (SLRF 2025), 25–28 September, Flagstaff(AZ), United States.

Holmberg Sjöling, C. & Kim, T. (2025, September 25–28). Expanding the construct of grammatical complexity: A case for grammatical diversity in writing. [Roundtable]. Second Language Research Forum 2025 (SLRF 2025), 25–28 September, Flagstaff(AZ), United States.

Kim, T., Biber, D., Reppen, R., & Larsson, T. (2025, July 7–8). Exploring the intersection of phraseological complexity and grammatical productivity: Do lexical phrases develop into grammatical structures as learners begin to produce specialized written registers? [Paper presentation]. Register and task variation in Learner Corpus Research (VAR4LCR), Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium.

Kim, T., Larsson, T., Kaatari, H., Wang, Y., & Sundqvist, P. (2025, June 30–July 3). The effects of extramural English reading on phraseology in L2 writing: A key phrase frames approach [Paper presentation]. Corpus Linguistics (CL2025), Birmingham, United Kingdom.

Wang, Y., Kaatari, H., Larsson, T., Kim, T., & Sundqvist, P. (2025, June 30–July 3). The impact of extramural English activities on phraseological complexity in L2 writing [Paper presentation]. Corpus Linguistics (CL2025), Birmingham, United Kingdom.

Kim, T., Larsson, T., Kaatari, H., Wang, Y., & Sundqvist, P. (2025, June 17–21). The impact of self-initiated L2 English reading on phraseological variation in student writing [Paper presentation]. The International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English (ICAME46), Vilnius, Lithuania.

Holmberg Sjöling, C., & Kim, T. (2025, June 17–21). Writing trajectories of grammatical complexity in L1 children’s writing [Paper presentation]. The International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English (ICAME46), Vilnius, Lithuania.

Kim, T., Larsson, T., Kaatari, H., Wang, Y., & Sundqvist, P. (2025, March 22–25). The impact of self-initiated reading activities on L2 learners’ phraseological complexity [Paper presentation]. American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL 2025), Denver, Colorado, United States.

Kim, T. (2024, October 4–5). The effects of out-of-class reading on phraseological competence in L2 writing: A key phrase frames approach [Paper presentation]. Arizona Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (AZTESOL 2024), Flagstaff, Arizona, United States.

Kaatari, H., Larsson, T., Wang, Y., Sundqvist, P., & Kim, T. (2024, September 26–28). The effect of self-initiated L2 activities on intermediate-level students’ lexical complexity [Paper presentation]. Learner Corpus Research (LCR 2024), Tallinn, Estonia.

Kaatari, H., Larsson, T., Wang, Y., Sundqvist, P., & Kim, T. (2024, September 13–15). What type of language input has a positive effect on lexical complexity? A study of L2 student writing [Paper presentation]. The American Association for Corpus Linguistics (AACL 2024), Eugene, Oregon, United States.

Kaatari, H., Larsson, T., Wang, Y., Sundqvist, P., & Kim, T. (2024, July 7–10). Lexical complexity and L2 English learners: The effect of different self-initiated out-of-school activities on writing [Paper presentation]. Teaching and Language Corpora Conference (TaLC 2024), Manchester, United Kingdom.

Kaatari, H., Larsson, T., Wang, Y., Sundqvist, P., & Kim, T. (2024, June 18–22). Self-initiated L2 English activities and their effects on lexical complexity in student writing [Paper presentation]. The International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English (ICAME45), Vigo, Spain.

Kaatari, H., Larsson, T., Wang, Y., Sundqvist, P., & Kim, T. (2024, April 18–19). The impact of extramural English activities on lexical sophistication in intermediate-level L2 student writing [Paper presentation]. The Swedish Applied Linguistics Association (ASLA 2024), Falun, Sweden.

Kim, T. (2022, December 15–17). The effects of prior knowledge and English proficiency and their interaction on L2 reading comprehension of an expository text [Paper presentation]. The English Language and Literature Association of Korea (ELLAK 2022), Seoul, South Korea.

Invited talks and workshop

Holmberg Sjöling, C. & Kim, T. (upcoming). Introducing an index for analysis of grammatical diversity in writing. At the higher seminar of Language, Literature and Education, Luleå University of Technology.

Kim, T. (2020) Basic Workshop on Text Analysis for AI-based Language Research [Workshop assistant]. Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea.