Current Projects
Membership of Editorial Boards
Critical Inquiry in Language Studies https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/hcil20/current
Korean Linguistics https://benjamins.com/catalog/kl
Recent and Upcoming Conference Presentations
2023
The role of university in a Korean heritage language student's identity development. University of South Australia. 24 November 2023.
Park, M. Y. Shifting attitudes towards heritage language education and bilingualism among Vietnamese immigrant mothers in South Korea. International Symposium on Bilingualism. 25-29 June.
Park, M. Y. Language ideologies, misunderstanding, and marginalization among North Korean refugees in rural South Korea. American Association for Applied Linguistics. 18-21 March.
2022
Park, M. Y. The role of identity in family language policy: The case of mixed-heritage families with Korean mothers in New Zealand. Paper accepted to present as part of the colloquium below at the ALANZ-ALAA-ALTAANZ conference. Wellington, 25-27 November. http://www.alanz2021.co.nz/
Colloquium title: Identity, language ideologies, and family language policy among indigenous, immigrant, and refugee families in New Zealand
Colloquium organizer: Mi Yung Park (University of Auckland)
Park, M. Y. Bidialectalism, language use and discrimination: Voices of North Korean refugees in South Korea. Paper accepted to present at the 11th World Congress of Korean Studies. The Academy of Korean Studies, Korea. 19-21 October 2022.
Park, M. Y. Family language policy among mixed-heritage families in New Zealand. Sociolinguistics Symposium 24. Belgium. 13-16 July. https://ss24ghent.be/
Colloquium title: Entangled language ideologies, multilingualism, and language policy in transnational/ethnic minority families
Colloquium co-organizers: Prem Phyak (Chinese University of Hong Kong) and Mi Yung Park (University of Auckland)
Park, M. Y., & Lee, H. COVID-19 and the construction of wuli (we): Marriage-migrant women and care discourses in South Korea. The American Association of Applied Linguistics (AAAL) Conference. Pittsburgh, PA. 19-22 March.
Park, M. Y. Conducting research in the Korean language community in New Zealand: 1.5-generation Korean-New Zealanders’ perceptions of bilingualism and identity. Korean Studies Association of Australasia (KSAA) Conference, 5 February 2022.
Research Grants
The Academy of Korean Studies Fellow 2024
University of Auckland Research Development Fund 2024-2025 (RDF)
Project title: Linguistic diversity and linguistic discrimination [Co-investigator with Stephen May, PI, Faculty of Education, Peter Keegan, AI, Faculty of Education]
Korean Studies Grant, The Academy of Korean Studies 2024-2025 (Principal Investigator)
Project title: Korean as a foreign language (KFL) learners’ motivation, demotivation, and language achievement: The Australian and New Zealand context
Korean Studies Research Grant, The Academy of Korean Studies 2021-2022
Project title: Language use, language maintenance, and ethnic identity among Korean heritage speakers in the Asia-Pacific region (Australia, New Zealand, and Hawaii) [Co-investigator with Min Jung Jee, PI, University of Queensland, and Sang Yee Cheon, University of Hawai‘i at Manoa]
Faculty Development Research Fund 2021-2022 (Principal Investigator)
Project title: Family language policies and language use among Korean migrant families in New Zealand
Academy of Korean Studies Research Grant 2017-2018 (Principal Investigator)
Project title: Language use and identity construction of mixed-heritage children in South Korea
Faculty Development Research Fund 2014-2016 (Principal Investigator)
Project title: Exploring language learning and identity in the context of migration
Projects
Individual projects
Language ideologies and marginalization among North Korean refugees in rural South Korea
Korean language maintenance and shift in the English-speaking world. (invited book chapter)
Family language policy among dual heritage, multilingual families in New Zealand.
Heritage language use and identity construction among Korean-American bilingual adolescents
Current collaborative projects
Barkhuizen, G., Park, M. Y., & May, S. (Under Contract). Mobilizing identities in language policy, teaching, and learning. Routledge.
Integrated performance assessment (IPA) in a Korean language classroom. With Heeyeong Jung (Brown University), Sorin Huh (Emory University) and Bumyong Choi (Emory University)
Shifting language ideologies and heritage language education: Experiences of Vietnamese marriage-migrant mothers in South Korea. With Lee Jin Choi (Hongik University)
Identity construction among international students returning to South Korea. With Lee Jin Choi (Hongik University)