Ji-Young Jung is Lecturer in Korean in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures. She received her Ed.M. (2002) and Ed.D. (2009) in Applied Linguistics from Teachers College, Columbia University. Her research interests include intercultural pragmatics, discourse analysis, foreign language pedagogy and heritage language acquisition. Prior to joining Columbia, she taught at the University of Pennsylvania (2012-2018) and Rutgers University (2009-2012). She is currently co-authoring a KLEAR Korean language textbook (Accelerated Korean I & II, University of Hawaii Press).