Historical Progression of English Education in Korea

Tae-Young Kim (Ph.D. OISE/University of Toronto) is a Professor in the Department of English Education at Chung-Ang University, Seoul, South Korea, where he teaches both undergraduate and graduate courses in applied linguistics, and coordinates the Graduate School of Education (English major). His research interests include ESL/EFL learning/teaching motivation, demotivation, historical analysis of English education, sociocultural theory, and qualitative methodology. He has published over 180 papers and book chapters and 5 books on various topics in L2 motivation and language education. His recent studies have been published in the Canadian Modern Language Review, System, Educational Gerontology, Language and Intercultural Communication, Language and Social Interaction, Language Teaching Research, the Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, and Asia Pacific Education Review. He published a book entitled ＂Historical Development of English Learning Motivation Research: Cases of Korea and Its Neighboring Countries in East Asia＂ at Springer (English Language Education Series, Vol. 21) in 2021 and co-edited a book entitled ＂Language Teacher Motivation, Autonomy and Development in East Asia＂ at Springer (English Language Education Series, Vol. 25) in 2022.