Young-mee Yu Cho is Professor of Korean Language and Culture. Her main research interests comprise Korean language, linguistics, and Korean studies. In Korean phonology, she has worked on syllable structure, laryngeal contrasts in consonants, and lexical stratification while in pragmatics her research focuses on a spectrum of social meanings of honorifics in the context of Asian linguistics. As a specialist in Korean as a Foreign Language (KFL) education, she co-authored the most popular Korean textbook series, Integrated Korean (2000-2020) and a textbook for Korean heritage learners, Integrated Korean-Accelerated 1 & 2 (2021), in addition to Teaching Korean as a Foreign Language: Theories and Practices (2021). As President of the American Association of Teachers of Korean, she led the task force to produce the National Standards for Korean Language Learning (2012) and its curricula application (2015). In addition, she has been working on the Korean materials in the William Elliot Griffis Collection at Rutgers Libraries, producing Korean Photographs in the William Griffis Collection (2019) and Annotated Korea Letters in the Griffis Collection: An Annotated Selection (2024). In 2023 she launched a Korean Humanities Translation series, DITTA (Rutgers University Press).
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- Professor
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- Asian Languages and Cultures