Young-Suk Kim

Young-Suk Kim is a professor and senior associate dean at the School of Education, University of California, Irvine. She was formerly a classroom teacher in San Francisco. Her scholarship focuses on understanding language and literacy development and effective instruction for racially, ethnically, economically, and linguistically diverse children, and helping them build strong foundations to support their success in school and beyond. Her areas of research include reading comprehension, reading fluency, listening comprehension and oral language, dyslexia, higher-order cognitive skills, written composition, and reading-writing relations.

Kim, a member-at-large on the ILA Board of Directors, has worked extensively with monolingual children from various linguistic backgrounds (e.g., English, Korean, Chinese, Spanish, Kiswahili) and multilingual children in the United States. Her research has been supported by more than $60 million in grants from the Institute of Education Sciences, the U. S. Department of Education, the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, and the National Science Foundation.

Kim currently serves as the editor-in-chief for Scientific Studies of Reading and the chair of the Vocabulary SIG for the American Educational Research Association.