Sung Park-Johnson

Dr. Park-Johnson is the director of the Bilingual Education/English as a Second Language Minor. She is also the co-director of the Bilingual Language Development (BiLD) Lab.

Research Interests

Bilingual language acquisition; Heritage language acquisition, loss, and maintenance; Code-switching/-mixing; Language assessment; Syntactic development by bilingual children

Selected Publications

Park-Johnson, S. & Shin, S. (2020). Linguistics for Language Teachers: Lessons for Classroom Practice. Routledge: New York.

Park-Johnson, S. K. (2020). Teachers’ Attitudes and Beliefs About Code-mixing by Bilingual Students. Educational Studies, 56(2), 125-144. https://doi.org/10.1080/00131946.2019.1694026

Park-Johnson, S. K. (2019). Case ellipsis: Acquisition of variability by young heritage speakers of Korean. International Multilingual Research Journal, 13(1), 15-31. https://doi.org/10.1080/19313152.2018.1492281

Park-Johnson, S. K. (2019). The role of person in subject auxiliary inversion in English wh-questions: Evidence from Korean-English bilingual children. International Journal of Bilingualism, 23(1), 313–328. https://doi.org/10.1177/1367006917720090

Park-Johnson, S. K. (2017). Code mixing as a window into language dominance: Evidence from Korean heritage speakers. Heritage Language Journal, 14(1), 49-6

Awards and Honors

• DePaul University Excellence in Teaching Award, 2020
• University Research Council Summer Research Grant, 2020
• Provost’s Collaborative Research Fellowship, 2018
• Steans Center Community Based Research Faculty Fellowship, 2017
• Academic Initiatives Grant, 2017