Jungwan Yoon

Senior Lecturer, Writing & Communication

Bio

I am a researcher and teacher in the field of second language (L2) education and academic writing. I hold a PhD in Applied Linguistics from The Pennsylvania State University. The areas of my research include L2 education with a particular attention to academic literacy development and writing/EAP (English for Academic Purposes) pedagogy, corpus-based analysis of academic discourse, and language/writing teacher education. As an applied linguist, I view language as a meaning-making resource, and I am keenly interested in how speakers and writers use language to construct meaning for communication, especially in academic discourse. I study the language choice in academic discourse focusing on the interface between micro-level (e.g., lexico-grammatical elements) and macro-level features (e.g., genre) and explore ways to apply insights from discourse analysis to academic literacy instruction for students, including teacher education, as well as genre and text analysis more broadly. My work has appeared in the Journal of English for Academic Purposes, International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, International Journal of Applied Linguistics, and Mentoring & Tutoring: Partnership in Learning. My current projects examine how authors in various disciplines linguistically materialize their rhetorical aims focusing on the genre of research articles and the use of formulaic sequences.