Ji-Young Jung

Senior Lecturer in Korean

Office: 502-E Kent Hall
Office Hours: M/R 1:10-2:10 PM
Email: jj277@columbia.edu

Educational Background

Ed.D. in Applied Linguistics, Teachers College, Columbia University (2009)
Ed.M. in Applied Linguistics, Teachers College, Columbia University (2002)
M.A. in TESOL, Teachers College, Columbia University (2001)
B.A. in French Language and Literature, Kyungpook National University (1996)

Classes Taught

Introductory Korean
First Year Korean
Accelerated Korean
Third Year Korean

Research Interests

Discourse Analysis
Second Language Acquisition
Heritage Language Education

Ji-Young Jung has an eighteen-year teaching career as a foreign language educator, offering instruction across various proficiency levels of the Korean language. Her teaching repertoire spans diverse courses, including Korean for Heritage Speakers, language-and-content courses like Current Korean Media, and Advanced Readings in Korean, where she delves into contemporary Korean literature. Before her appointment to the EALAC faculty in 2018, Ji-Young Jung shared her expertise at the University of Pennsylvania and Rutgers University, New Brunswick. She is a co-author of Integrated Korean: Accelerated I and II for the KLEAR Korean Textbook Series (University of Hawai‘i Press), the most widely used Korean language textbook series in North America. Ji-Young Jung’s contributions extend to her role on the task force responsible for creating the College Korean Curriculum Inspired by the National Standards for Korean in 2015. In addition, Ji-Young Jung holds full certifications as a tester for both ACTFL’s OPI, a language proficiency assessment tool widely utilized in academic and commercial contexts, and ILR OPI, a critical assessment instrument employed by the U.S. government and military.

Selected Publications

Korean for Specific Purposes. In A. S. Byon and D. O. Pyun (Eds.) The Routledge Handbook of Korean as a Second Language (pp. 194-221) (Routledge, 2022)

Integrated Korean: Accelerated 1 & Accelerated 2 (co-author, University of Hawai‘i Press, 2020 & 2021)

Literacies and Multiliteracies in Korean Language Learning and Teaching. In Y. Y. Cho (Ed.) Teaching Korean as a Foreign Language: Theories and Practices (pp. 117-146). (co-author, Routledge, 2021).

Citizen sociolinguistics: Making connections in the foreign language classroom. Korean Language in America, 22(1), 1-24 (co-author, 2018)