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  • Professor Applied Linguistics, Conversation Analysis
  • PARK, YU JONG 홈페이지 바로가기

Research Interest

Conversation/Discourse Analysis
Applied Linguistics

Education

  • (Ph.D.) UCLA, Applied Linguistics Department
  • (BA/MA) Seoul National University, English Education department

Experience

  • 2022-2024 Chair, Language and AI graduate school
  • 2019 Fulbright Scholar UCLA
  • 2016-2017 SKKU, English Language and Literature department chair
  • 2009-2011 Korean Institute of Curriculum and Evaluation (KICE)
  • 2008 UCLA Applied Linguistics/Linguistics department, Teaching Fellow/Assistant

Journal Articles

  • (2026)  Unpacking EFL teachers’ perceived opportunities and challenges of multimodal AI-driven language testing.  Language Testing in Asia.  16,  29
  • (2026)  From Gutenberg to the classroom: large-scale generation and validation of vocabulary- controlled EFL reading materials.  Language Testing in Asia.  17,  1
  • (2026)  Constructing ‘the foreigner': an analysis of ethnic labels in English as a Lingua Franca interactions in a Korean university.  INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MULTILINGUALISM.  23,  4
  • (2025)  Not a Bug, a Feature? How Repetition Enhances Perceived Naturalness in Synthesized Conversation.  INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION.  42,  1
  • (2025)  Activity contamination in a problematic call made to the Korean emergency center.  PRAGMATICS AND SOCIETY.  17,  1
  • (2024)  Effects of Using a GPT-based Application for Building EFL Students’ Question-asking Skills.  Foreign Languages Education.  31,  4
  • (2022)  Eliciting student participation in synchronous online L2 lessons: The use of oral and written DIUs.  LINGUISTICS AND EDUCATION.  71,  -
  • (2022)  'Your pronunciation is really good': the construction of linguistic identities in ELF interactions among multilingual speakers.  INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MULTILINGUALISM.  19,  4
  • (2018)  Task-in-process During Information-gap Activities in Korean Middle School English Classrooms.  영어교육.  73,  2
  • (2018)  Procedural Display and Shadowing in L2 English Lessons: A Look at Korean Kindergarten Classrooms.  담화와 인지.  25,  1
  • (2017)  Achieving Co-alignment in Cross-cultural Interactions: The Use of Final Rising Intonation by Korean Learners of English.  응용언어학.  33,  3
  • (2017)  A closing-implicative practice in Korean primary medical care openings.  JOURNAL OF PRAGMATICS.  108, 
  • (2016)  Pragma-Linguistic Differences in Korean EFL Student Productions of Conventional Expressions.  영어교육.  71,  4
  • (2014)  A Child’s Display of Sequential Knowledge through Repetition of Boundary Tones: A Case Study.  어학연구.  50,  3
  • (2014)  A Preliminary Analysis of History-Taking Questions in Korean Primary Care Contexts.  의료커뮤니케이션.  9,  1
  • (2014)  Openings in Korean Primary Care Discourse: Where Does It Hurt?.  담화와 인지.  21,  1
  • (2013)  Negotiating last-minute concerns in closing Korean medical encounters: The use of gaze, body and talk.  SOCIAL SCIENCE & MEDICINE.  97,  Special SI
  • (2013)  The Roles of Third-Turn Repeats in Two L2 Classroom Interactional Contexts.  APPLIED LINGUISTICS. 

Publications

  • (2024)  Exploring Korean Politeness Across Online and Offline Interactions Ch. 10. Facework in Patient Requests for Treatment Recommendations in Korean Medical Interactions: The Use of Main Clause Omission.  Springer Nature.  Co-author
  • (2024)  Navigating Friendships in Interaction: Discursive and Ethnographic Perspectives.  Routledge.  Co-author
  • (2018)  English 2.  미래엔.  Co-author
  • (2014)  현대영어교육학 연구의 지평.  서울대학교출판문화원.  Co-author

Honors / Awards

  • Referee for Discourse and Cognition, English Education, Applied linguistics journal of Korea, Journal of Pragmatics

Conference Paper

  • (2025)  언어 교육의 현주소와 미래 전망-한국 영어 교육을 중심으로.  한국언어문화교육학회.  KOREA, REPUBLIC OF
  • (2021)  Using CA in the investigation of ELF interaction among L2/ multilingual students.  International International Symposium on Conversation Analysis of English Learning Activities.  JAPAN
  • (2013)  Epistemics and the construction of social action.  담화인지언어학회 연구모임.  KOREA, REPUBLIC OF
  • (2012)  The interactional organization of TEE classrooms in Korean contexts: Adotping the communicative approach.  2012 International conference:Conversation analysis and corpus linguistics.  KOREA, REPUBLIC OF