Yujong Park

    Yujong Park (박유정) is a Professor of Applied Linguistics in the Department of English Language and Literature at Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU), Seoul, Korea. She received her Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics from UCLA, where she trained under John Heritage and Charles Goodwin. Her research draws on conversation analysis (CA) and multimodal interaction analysis to examine talk-in-interaction across institutional, educational, and multilingual settings — including English as a lingua franca (ELF) interactions, L2 classrooms, emergency call centers, medical consultations, and AI-mediated communication.

   Her work has appeared in journals such as Applied Linguistics, Journal of Pragmatics, Linguistics and Education, Language Teaching Research, Discourse Studies, and International Journal of Multilingualism, among others. She is currently a faculty member in the English Language and Literature department and has served as department chair and as Dean of the Graduate School of Language AI at SKKU. 

• Academic Positions & Career

•  2023–2024  Dean, Graduate School of Translation-TESOL / Dean, Graduate School of Language AI, Sungkyunkwan University

• 2021–present  Chief Professor, SKKU Times & University Broadcasting Station

• 2019  Fulbright Visiting Scholar, Department of Applied Linguistics, UCLA

• 2016–2017  Chair, Department of English Language and Literature, Sungkyunkwan University

• 2012–present  Professor, Department of English Language and Literature, Sungkyunkwan University

• 2009–2011  Research Fellow, Korea Institute for Curriculum and Evaluation (KICE)

• 2005–2008  Teaching Fellow, Department of Applied Linguistics & Linguistics, UCLA

• 2003–2004  Language Instructor, Language Education Institute, Seoul National University 

• Introduction to English Linguistics 

• Applied Linguistics

• Discourse Analysis 

• Special Topics in Conversation Analysis 

• English Education and AI (Project-based)

• Interactional Linguistics (Graduate level)

•     Ph.D., Applied Linguistics, UCLA (Dissertation Advisors: John Heritage & Charles Goodwin)

•     M.A., English Language Education, Seoul National University (Thesis Advisor: Lee Byungmin)

•     B.A., English Language Education, Seoul National University

•     Conversation Analysis & Interactional Linguistics

•     English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) Interaction

•     Multimodal Resources in Talk-in-Interaction

•     L2 Classroom Interaction

•     AI-Mediated Communication and Digital Literacy

•     Institutional Talk — medical, emergency, and educational settings

2026

1.   (2026)  Park, Y., Derakhshan, A. From Gutenberg to the classroom: Large-scale generation and validation of vocabulary-controlled EFL reading materials. Language Testing in Asia, 17(1).

2.  (2026)  Derakhshan, A., Park, Y. The role of multimodal AI technologies in EFL students' perceived positive and negative achievement emotions: an EPP perspective. Language Related Research, 17(3).

3.   (2026)  Park, Y. 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

3.   (2025)  Park, Y., Cho, H., Song, J. Not a bug, a feature? How repetition enhances perceived naturalness in synthesized conversation. International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction, 42(1).

4.   (2025)  Park, Y. Activity contamination in a problematic call made to the Korean emergency center. Pragmatics and Society, 17(2).  https://doi.org/10.1075/ps.22046.par

2024

5.   (2024)  Park, Y., Bum, J., Lim, D. Effects of using a GPT-based application for building EFL students' question-asking skills. Foreign Languages Education, 31(4).

2023

6.   (2023)  Park, Y. 'What's your name?' Identification and frame mismatch in Korean telephone call openings. Korean Linguistics, 19(1), 59–87.  https://doi.org/10.1075/kl.22002.par

2022

7.   (2022)  Park, Y., Park, S.. Eliciting student participation in synchronous online L2 lessons: The use of oral and written DIUs. Linguistics and Education, 71.

8.   (2022)  Park, Y. 'Your pronunciation is really good': The construction of linguistic identities in ELF interactions among multilingual speakers. International Journal of Multilingualism, 17(3).

9.   (2022)  Park, Y., Kim, S. Teachers' use of reported speech in Korean elementary school classroom interactions. Discourse Studies, 24(4).

10. (2022)  Park, Y. Pragmatic misrepresentations in secondary school English textbook dialogues: A comparative study of third-turn receipts. 응용언어학, 38(1).

11.  (2022)  Park, Y. Negative question forms and epistemic authority in Korean primary care consultations. Korean Journal of Applied Linguistics. 

2021

12.    (2021)  Park, Y. [+ co-author]. Task type completion in lower level EFL classes: A conversation analytic study. Language Teaching Research, 27(1).

2019

13.    (2019)  Park, Y. The intersubjective construction of English identity in Korean college students. 담화와 인지, 26(3).

2018

14.    (2018)  Park, Y. Task-in-process during information-gap activities in Korean middle school English classrooms. 영어교육, 73(2).

15.    (2018)  Park, Y. Procedural display and shadowing in L2 English lessons: A look at Korean kindergarten classrooms. 담화와 인지, 25(1).

2017

16.    (2017)  Park, Y. A closing-implicative practice in Korean primary medical care openings. Journal of Pragmatics, 108.

17.    (2017)  Park, Y. Achieving co-alignment in cross-cultural interactions: The use of final rising intonation by Korean learners of English. 응용언어학, 33(3).

2016

18.    (2016)  Park, Y. Pragma-linguistic differences in Korean EFL student productions of conventional expressions. English Teaching, 71(4), 3–26.

2014

19.    (2014)  Park, Y. The roles of third-turn repeats in two L2 classroom interactional contexts. Applied Linguistics, 35(2), 145–167.  https://doi.org/10.1093/applin/amt006

2011

20.    (2011)  Park, Y. Using news articles to build a critical literacy classroom in an EFL setting. TESOL Journal, 2(1), 24–51.