Dr. Theres Grüter was the plenary speaker at the 2025 Applied Linguistics Association of Korea (ALAK) International Conference held at Seoul National University on September 20, 2025. The conference was organized by Kitaek Kim (PhD 2014).
Dr. Grüter’s talk was titled, “Why Being Surprised is a Good Thing: Prediction Error as a Form of Negative Evidence in Language Learning.”
While at the conference, Dr. Grüter was able to connect with both current and former students (by row, left to right):
Joonhee Kim (SLS PhD student)
Jieun Kim (SLS PhD 2025, Soongsil University)
Sun-Young Lee (Linguistics PhD 2003, Cyber Hankuk University of Foreign
Studies)
Jin-Hwa Lee (SLS PhD 2006, Chung-Ang University)
Kitaek Kim (SLS PhD 2014, Seoul National University)
Hyunwoo Kim (SLS PhD 2018, Yonsei University)
Theres Grüter
On-Soon Lee (Linguistics PhD 2014, Sunchon National University)
Kum-Jeong Joo (Linguistics PhD 2014, Induk University)
Congratulations on a great conference!