Kim Ahran

(金アラン)

Profile Information

Affiliation: Associate Professor, Center for Language Education and Research, Sophia University

Degree: Master of International Cultural Studies(Tohoku University)
Doctor of Philosophy (International Cultural Studies)(Tohoku University)

J-GLOBAL ID: 201301076993460670
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2008年－2010年　東北大学大学院国際文化研究科　韓国語における非丁寧体のスピーチレベルシフトについて研究
2009年－2010年　東北大学国際高等研究教育機構　修士研究教育院生として「言語・人間・社会システム領域基盤」の融合研究　
2010年－2012年　東北大学大学院国際文化研究科　日韓語におけるスピーチレベルシフトについて研究
2010年－2012年　東北大学国際高等研究教育機構　博士研究教育院生として「言語・人間・社会システム領域基盤」の融合研究

(研究テーマ)
自然会話における話し手の発話意図と談話効果

Research Interests

Research Areas

Humanities & social sciences / Linguistics /

Research History

Apr, 2018 - Present

Associate professor, Center for Language Education and Research, Sophia University
Apr, 2024 - Mar, 2026

Lecturer (part-time), GEC, Waseda University
Apr, 2016 - Mar, 2019

Public lecture, Sophia University
Apr, 2013 - Mar, 2018

Assistant professor, Center for Language Education and Research, Sophia University
Apr, 2013 - Mar, 2018

Lecturer (part-time), Faculty of Foreign Languages Department of Asian Languages, Korean Major, Kanda University of International Studies

Committee Memberships

Apr, 2026 - Present

Public Relations Committee Member, The Japanese Association of Korean Language Education
Apr, 2024 - Present

Organizing Committee Member, The Japanese Association of Korean Language Education
Apr, 2023 - Present

Program Committee Member, The Japanese Association of Sociolinguistic Sciences
Apr, 2024 - Mar, 2026

Director of Research, The Japanese Association of Korean Language Education
Mar, 2017 - Feb, 2019

Director of External Affairs, The Japanese Culture Association of Korea

Papers

Self-Transcription and Self-Feedback on Learners’ Own Speech in Advanced Korean Classes

Ahran Kim

Journal of Korean Language Education Research, (15) 45-63, Nov, 2025 Peer-reviewed
A study on the mixed use of honorific and non-honorific expressions

Ahran Kim

Journal of Korean Language Education Research, (14) 45-64, Nov, 2024 Peer-reviewed
Usage patterns of honorific expressions in Korean TV home shopping discourse

Ahran Kim

Lingua, (34) 85-101, Dec, 2023
Korean addressee honorifics from the 1970s to 1990s: An analysis based on movie dialogue data

Ahran Kim

Lingua, (33) 89-106, Dec, 2022
Korean addressee honorifics from the 1950s to 1960s: An analysis based on movie dialogue data

Ahran Kim

Lingua, (32) 31-47, Dec, 2021

Presentations

A Study of Korean and Japanese Honorific Usage through Japanese Translations in Business Korean Textbooks

Ahran Kim

The 69th Autumn International Conference of the Japanese Language and Literature Association, Dec 13, 2025
An Analysis of Honorific Usage in Business Korean Textbooks

Ahran Kim

The 16th International Conference of the Japanese Association for Korean Language Education（JAKLE）, Nov 8, 2025
A Study of Honorific Usage in the Films Dorodarake no Junjō (1963) and Maenbareui Cheongchun (1964)

Ahran Kim

The 68th International Conference of the Korea–Japan Cultural Association, Sep 20, 2025
Self-Transcription and Self-Feedback on Learners’ Own Speech in Advanced Korean Classes

Ahran Kim

The 15th International Conference of the Japanese Association for Korean Language Education（JAKLE）, Nov 9, 2024
A Study of Addressee Honorifics in Korean in the 1950s and 1960s

Ahran Kim

The 12th Annual Conference of the Japanese Association for Korean Language Education（JAKLE）, Nov 7, 2021

Professional Memberships

Research Projects

Developing a Pedagogical Method for Acquiring Subject Honorifics in Korean

Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Apr, 2025 - Mar, 2028

Ahran Kim
A Contrastive Study of Changes in the Use of Honorifics in Japanese and Korean: Focusing on the “Lack of Honorifics” and “Excessive Honorifics”

Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Apr, 2020 - Mar, 2023

Ahran Kim
A Study on the Criteria for the Non-use of Honorific Forms in Contemporary Korean: Sociolinguistic and Grammatical Perspectives

Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Apr, 2017 - Mar, 2020

Ahran Kim
A Contrastive Study on the Relationship Between Intimacy and Speech Level Choice in Japanese and Korean

Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Apr, 2014 - Mar, 2016

Ahran Kim

Social Activities

Contrastive Analysis of Korean and Japanese for Korean Language Education (Responsible for the section on honorifics and language behavior)

Lecturer

Outreach Center for Korean Linguistic, Literary, and Cultural Studies, Korea University, K-MOOC (Korea Massive Open Online Course), Jan 1, 2025 - Dec 31, 2025
Member of the Judging Panel, 30th Korean Speech Contest for Korean Students Living in Japan

Panelist, Others

Embassy of the Republic of Korea, Jun 22, 2024 - Jun 22, 2024
Member of the Judging Panel, 24th Tokyo Korean Language Speech Contest

Panelist

Tokyo Korean Education Center, Nov 11, 2023 - Nov 11, 2023
Member of the Judging Panel, 23rd Tokyo Korean Language Speech Contest

Panelist

Tokyo Korean Education Center, Dec 3, 2022 - Dec 3, 2022
A Contrastive Study of Speech Level Shift in Japanese and Korean

Guest

Graduate School of International Development and Cooperation, Nagoya University, 25th Public Lecture of the Applied Linguistics Seminar,, Dec 3, 2014 - Dec 3, 2014

Other

（Qualifications）Completed a Korean Language Teacher Training Program, Secondary School Teaching Certificate (Japanese Language, Level 2), Secondary School Teaching Certificate (Korean Language, Level 2)

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