Jean KimJean Kim , PhD is a Sociolinguist and Language educator in the Faculty of Education at the University of Canterbury. She has worked for many years as a language educator and researcher in various countries. Through her years of teaching experience indiverse contexts, she has researched the second/foreign/additional language acquisition, learning and teaching English as a second/foreign/additional language, and the transmission and maintenance of heritage/community/minority languages in multilingual contexts. Her current research focuses on heritage language transmission in interlingual families, multilingual instruction in classroom environments, and the role of technology in enhancing language proficiency in multilingual contexts. Read More Read Less