Park

Innhwa Park

  • Professor of TESOL
  • Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles
  • M.A., University of California, Los Angeles
  • B.A., Seoul National University

Research Interests

  • Language and Social Interaction
  • Conversation Analysis
  • Pedagogical Discourse
  • Pragmatics
  • Writing Instruction
  • ITA Training and Assessment

Classes Taught (only WCU listed)

  • Bilingual/Bicultural Education
  • ESL Practicum
  • Sociolinguistics (Conversation/Discourse Analysis)
  • Teaching English Language Learners (PK-12)
  • Teaching Listening and Speaking to ESL/SL learners
  • Teaching Reading and Writing to Second Language Learners
  • Teaching Pronunciation to ELLs
  • Techniques of Second Language Teaching

Recent Publications/Activities

Publications

Presentations

  • Park, I., & Wagner, M. (October 2022). Negotiating power inequalities in joint decision making. Language and Social Interaction Working Group, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York City.  
  • Koenig, C. J., Shrikant, N., DiDomenico, S. M., Robles, J. S., Goico, S., Ibnelkaïd, S., Hoey, E., Katila, J., Park, I., & Williamson, F. W. (May 2022). Holding the mirror up to EMCA around race, racism, and ethnicity: Preliminary insights from a meta-synthesis of publications from 2001-2020. 72nd Annual Conference of the International Communication Association. Paris, France.
  • Park, I., & Wagner, S. (March 2022). Problematizing a proposal in workplace meeting interaction. American Association of Applied Linguistics, Pittsburg, PA.
  • Timpe-Laughlin, V., & Park, I. (May 2019). Exploring yes/no questions to promote authenticity in L2 oral performance assessments. UCD Applied Language Centre, EALTA (European Association for Language Testing and Assessment), Dublin, Ireland.
  • Wagner, S., & Park, I. (March 2019). A conversation-analytic perspective; Co-constructing participation and learning in a high school Spanish class. Invited Colloquia: Language Learning Roundtable (“What do the data show? Multiple theoretical perspectives on learning in a single L2 classroom”), American Association of Applied Linguistics, Atlanta, GA.
  • Park, I. (December 2018). Conversation Analysis and Language Teaching Materials Design. Penn Language Center’s 8th Annual Language Educator Symposium, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.
  • Raclaw, J., & Park, I. (November 2018).“Wait, what?”: Wait-prefacing in delayed repair initiations. National Communication Association, Salt Lake City, UT. [Awarded Top Paper, Language and Social Interaction Division]
  • Park, I., & Raclaw, J. (October 2018). ‘Wait’-Prefaced Repair in English Talk-in-Interaction. Language and Social Interaction Working Group, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York City.  
  • Park, I., & Duey, M. (September 2017). “Sorry (to interrupt)”: Apology and turn-taking during workplace meeting interactions. Language and Social Interaction Working Group, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York City.  
  • Park, I. (November 2016). “Why do I care?”: Reported thought as critical evaluation. National
    Communication Association, Philadelphia, PA.
  • Park, I. (April 2016). “So what’s the difference?”: L2 Writers’ use of questioning as advice resistance. American Association of Applied Linguistics, Orlando, FL.
  • Timpe-Laughlin, V., & Park, I. (April 2016). Cultural concepts in role­play assessments – Exploring L2 learner’s use of communicative strategies in oral interaction. American Association of Applied Linguistics, Orlando, FL.
  • Park, I., & Kim, S. H (April 2016). Insights into ITA testing and training from conversation analysis. TESOL, Baltimore, MD.  
  • Park, I. (October 2014). “I want you to read it”: Requests in writing tutoring. Language and Social Interaction Working Group. Teachers College, Columbia University, New York City.
  • Park, I. (March 2014). Advice negotiation in writing center peer tutoring. American Association of Applied Linguistics, Portland, OR.
  • Park, I. (September 2013). The use of conjunction “or” in student questions. Linguistic Association of the Southwest, New Brunswick, NJ.

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