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: Academic experiences, language use, and identity construction among North Korean refugee-background university students in South Korea 

• University of Auckland Research Development Fund 2024-2025 (RDF) ($45,000): Linguistic diversity and linguistic discrimination [with Stephen May, PI, Faculty of Education, Peter Keegan, AI, Faculty of Education] 

• Academy of Korean Studies Research Grant 2021-2022 ($20,000): Language use, language maintenance, and ethnic identity among Korean heritage speakers in the Asia-Pacific region (Australia, New Zealand, and Hawaii) [with Min Jung Jee, PI, University of Queensland, and Sang Yee Cheon, University of Hawai‘i at Manoa]

• Faculty Development Research Fund 2021-2022 ($14,000): Family language policies and language use among Korean migrant families in New Zealand

• Academy of Korean Studies Research Grant 2017-2018 ($9,000): Language use and identity construction of mixed-heritage children in South Korea

• Faculty Development Research Fund 2014-2016 ($24,000): 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)