Jungyoung Park is an Assistant Professor at the Korea Institute of Energy Technology (KENTECH). KENTECH takes an educational approach to inquiry-based learning in order to cultivate the creation of integrated efforts for future energy inventions and innovations. As the director of the ESP (English for Specific Purposes) program at KETNCH, she has been working on how to help students from diverse backgrounds build their linguistic repertoires for effectively communicating in genre-specific, discipline- legitimate, and context-sensitive ways.

Before joining KENTECH, she taught reading and assessment courses offered by the Unified Elementary ProTeach program at the University of Florida, where she conducted her dissertation research on preservice teachers’ metalinguistic knowledge for teaching reading, research that was supported by the Irving and Rose Fien Reading Fellowship. Her expertise includes language and literacy education, English curriculum development and assessment, and disciplinary reading and writing. Her primary interest is in linguistically informed, responsive, and embedded pedagogies for language and literacy education within a Systemic Functional Linguistics framework, focusing on scientific literacy as the ability to engage in social, semiotic, and cognitive practices.

Since receiving the 2022 UKLA Wiley Research Literacy Education Award for her research in informational writing, Jungyoung has become an active member of the UKLA community. Her recent work focuses on developing and assessing students’ metalinguistic understanding of writing within the context of science and engineering education.