She is also Director of Language Instruction of the Hindi-Urdu program in the Department. Sungok Hong specializes in Hindi/Urdu syntax with an emphasis on the Indirect Subject Construction, and in modern Hindi/Urdu literature and its history. Her other research interests include linguistic typology, language pedagogy, second language acquisition, pragmatics in language learning/teaching, and culture in foreign language teaching. Her new research explores the interaction between animacy and morphological and syntactic encoding in Hindi-Urdu. Sungok Hong has integrated technology into her language teaching and continued to develop teaching material that is technology-based and computer-assisted.