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Jungwan Yoon is a researcher and teacher specializing in language education, particularly L2 (second language) education and academic writing. He holds a PhD in Applied Linguistics from Pennsylvania State University. His research areas include L2 education, with a focus on academic literacy development and writing pedagogy for English for Academic Purposes (EAP). He utilizes corpus-based analysis to study academic discourse and emphasizes language/writing teacher education. Yoon views language as a meaning-making resource and is particularly interested in how speakers and writers utilize language to construct meaning in communication, especially within the framework of academic discourse. His work investigates language choices in academic discourse, examining both micro-level (e.g., lexico-grammatical elements) and macro-level features (e.g., genre). Yoon explores how insights from discourse analysis can inform academic literacy instruction for students and teacher education, as well as genre text analysis more broadly. His research has been published in the Journal of English for Academic Purposes, International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, International Journal of Applied Linguistics, and Mentoring & Tutoring: Partnership in Learning. Currently, he is working on projects that investigate how authors in various disciplines linguistically materialize rhetorical aims, with a focus on genre research articles and the use of formulaic sequences.
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