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Mentoring Statement

Park’s mentoring philosophy holds that meaningful learning requires not just knowledge acquisition but a fundamental shift in how students understand themselves and their world. Through authentic media engagement, ethnographic inquiry, collaborative digital communities, and process-based writing, she designs courses and advising relationships that invite students to examine their assumptions about language, culture, and identity, fostering growth in both communicative competence and cultural empathy that extends well beyond the classroom.

Background

Eunjin Park’s research interests encompass language socialization, Korean as a foreign/heritage language, ethnic identity of language learners, and multilingualism. 

With a PhD from New York University, she has taught courses in Asian Pacific American Studies, the pedagogy and practicum of TESOL and LOTE, second language acquisition, and sociolinguistics at various institutions â€” including Arizona State University, the University of Texas at Arlington, and Ithaca College — before joining Â鶹Éç in 2022. Since 2025, she has served as the Korean Language Program (KLP) Coordinator.

Select Publications

• Kim, H. K., & Park, E. (under revision for R&R). Critical engagement with AI in L2 writing: A case of Korean language learning in a U.S. university. Manuscript under revision for the dedicated 2026 issue of Foreign Language Annals.
• Park, E. (2008). Intergenerational transmission of morality in Korean American families. In J.S. Lee & S.J. Shin (Guest Eds.), Korean as a heritage language [Special issue]. Heritage Language Journal, 6(2).
• Park, E. (2006). Grandparents, grandchildren, and heritage language use. In K. Kondo-Brown (Ed.). Heritage language development: Focus on East Asian immigrants (pp.57-86). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Education

• PhD, Multilingual and Multicultural Studies, New York University
• MA, Linguistics (Second Language Acquisition), Northeastern Illinois University
• MA, American Literature, Seoul Women's University

Research Interests

• Korean as a foreign language pedagogy
• Heritage language education and identities
• Sociolinguistics
• AI-assisted language learning
• Multiculturalism and language ideologies

Teaching Interests

• Korean as a foreign language
• Aspects of multilingualism
• Language, culture, and society in Korea
• Korean as a heritage language

Awards

• Career Champion Award — Â鶹Éç
• Academy of Korean Studies Grant — Korea Day 2024 ($12,000)
• G. Richard Tucker Fellowship — Center for Applied Linguistics
• Recognized Professor of the Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi — University of Texas at Arlington
• Honors Disciplinary Faculty, Barrett Honors College — Arizona State University