Ji-Young Jung

Senior Lecturer in Korean, Director of the Korean Language Program

Office: 502-D Kent Hall
Office Hours: M/W 1:00-2:00 PM
Email: jj277@columbia.edu

Educational Background

Ed.D. Applied Linguistics, Teachers College, Columbia University
Ed.M. Applied Linguistics, Teachers College, Columbia University
M.A. TESOL, Teachers College, Columbia University

Classes Taught

Introductory Korean
First Year Korean
Accelerated Korean for Heritage Speakers
Third Year Korean
Fourth Year Korean

Research Interests

Intercultural Pragmatics
Second Language Acquisition
Heritage Language Education

Ji-Young Jung joined EALAC in 2018. Her teaching repertoire spans a wide range of courses, including Korean for Heritage Speakers and language-and-content courses such as Current Korean Media and Advanced Readings in Korean. Before coming to Columbia, she taught at the University of Pennsylvania and Rutgers University. She is a co-author of Integrated Korean: Accelerated I and II and High Advanced I and II, part of the KLEAR Korean Textbook Series (University of Hawai‘i Press), the most widely used Korean language textbook series in North America. Her contributions also include serving on the task force that developed the College Korean Curriculum Inspired by the National Standards for Korean in 2015. In addition, Ji-Young Jung holds full certification as a tester for both ACTFL’s OPI, a widely used language proficiency assessment tool in academic and professional contexts, and the ILR OPI, an assessment instrument used by the U.S. government and military.

Selected Publications

Integrated Korean: High Advanced 1 & High Advanced 2 (co-author, University of Hawai‘i Press, 2025)

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)