Heeyeong Jung is a lecturer in Korean Language Program in the Department of East Asian Studies at Brown University. She received her Ph.D. in East Asian Languages and Literatures specializing in Korean Linguistics from the University of Hawaii at Manoa and M.A. in Linguistics from the University of Oregon. Prior to joining Brown University, she taught Korean languages at Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 2019-22 and Harvard University from 2012-2020. She also taught at Middlebury Language Schools since the summer of 2016. She taught all levels of Korean language courses from 1st year to 5th year including a linguistic content course.
Her academic interests are focused on how to teach Korean as a second or foreign language. Accordingly, Korean pedagogy using instructional technology, the Integrated Performance Assessment (IPA), and issues of heritage learning and teaching in a classroom are major concerns. She is also interested in how languages are used differently in relation to a social context and how the speaker consciously or unconsciously employs a certain linguistic item in order to present a social meaning and to further display a desired identity. Specifically, she is conducting research on social meanings of linguistic style shifts occurring in various contexts in both Korean and Japanese discourses from an indexical perspective.
She is currently a certified ACTFL Korean Oral Proficiency Interview (OPI) tester and a certified ACTFL Assessment of Performance toward Proficiency in Languages (AAPPL) rater.
