Dr Mi Yung Park

PhD, Korean Linguistics, University of Hawaii; MA, Second Language Studies, University of Hawaii

Lecturer in Korean

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Biography

Mi Yung Park is a Lecturer in Korean at the University of Auckland. She received her PhD from the University of Hawaii and joined the University of Auckland in February 2014.

Research | Current

Korean language pedagogy
Language, identity, and migration
Heritage language education
Discourse analysis

My primary research interests include language and identity, social interaction, and multilingualism. I use qualitative research methods combined with ethnographic and discourse analytic approaches in order to shed light on the relationship between language learning and identity in the context of migration. I am currently working on two research projects funded by the University of Auckland and Academy of Korean Studies:

Bilingualism and multicultural families in South Korea

This project explores whether and to what extent children of Southeast Asian marriage-migrant women in Korea learn, develop, and maintain their heritage language. In particular, it focuses on the views and behavior of these women regarding their children’s heritage language maintenance and the challenges they encounter in teaching their children their mother language in Korea’s relatively monolingual society.

Language ideologies and identities: Exploring Southeast Asian migrant women's attitudes towards local and standard varieties of Korean

This study investigates how Southeast Asian marriage-migrant women in Korea position themselves relative to their local dialect and standard Korean, as they grow increasingly aware of the social meanings associated with different varieties of the Korean language. It also looks at how their ideologies and identities have influenced their language practices and participation in second language communities.

Forthcoming publication:

(forthcoming). Gender ideologies and Korean language learning: Experiences of rural marriage-migrants in South Korea. In K. Horner and J. Dailey-O’Cain (Eds.), Multilingualism and (Im)mobilities. Multilingual Matters.

Teaching | Current

KOREAN 111 Korean for Beginners 2

KOREAN 201 Intermediate Korean 2

Responsibilities

Study Abroad Adviser

Areas of expertise

Korean language pedagogy
Language, identity, and migration
Heritage language education
Discourse analysis

Selected publications and creative works (Research Outputs)

Park, M. Y. (2017). ‘I want to learn Seoul speech!’: language ideologies and practices among rural marriage-migrants in South Korea. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, Online first10.1080/13670050.2017.1351419
Park, M. Y. (2017). Developing bilingualism in a largely monolingual society: Southeast Asian marriage migrants and multicultural families in South Korea. In F. Fozdar, R. Zarine (Eds.) Mixed race in Asia: past, present and future (pp. 67-81). New York: Routledge.
Park, M. Y. (2017). Resisting linguistic and ethnic marginalization: voices of Southeast Asian marriage-migrant women in Korea. Language and Intercultural Communication, 17 (2), 118-134. 10.1080/14708477.2016.1165240
Park, M. Y. (2016). Integrating rapport-building into language instruction: A study of Korean foreign language classes. Classroom Discourse, 7 (2), 109-130. 10.1080/19463014.2015.1116103
Park, M. Y. (2015). The use of the -(su)pnita form in Korean language classroom discourse. Japanese/Korean Linguistics, 21, 217-230.
Park, M. Y. (2014). A study of the Korean sentence-ender -(u)psita: Implementing activity transitions in the KFL classroom. Journal of Pragmatics, 68, 25-39. 10.1016/j.pragma.2014.04.008
Park, M. Y. (2014). Teachers' use of speech styles in the Korean language classroom University of Hawai'i at Manoa. ProQuest. Related URL.
Sohn, H.-M., Jeong, H., & Park, M. Y. (2013). Toward K-16 articulation for advanced Korean language learning. In H.-M. Sohn (Ed.) Topics in Korean Language and Linguistics (pp. 747-761). Seoul, Korea: Korea University Press.