Yong-Yae Park specializes in various areas in applied linguistics such as conversation analysis and discourse analysis and ELT (English Language Teaching). Her main research topics include how various grammar items are used in EFL learners’ writing and how they differ from English native speakers’ writing, how interactional aspects such as advice giving and receiving are unfolded in EFL writing tutorials, what functions certain grammar items have in various spoken and written discourse in English and so on. Some of her recent publications include “Advice Receiving in College Writing Tutorials” (Sociolinguistics, vol. 26(1), 2018), “Interactional Uses of Acknowledgment tokens: ‘Ung’ and ‘E’ as responses to multi-unit turns in Korean conversation” (Enabling Human Conduct, John Benjamins, 2017), and “How Korean EFL Students Use Conjunctive Adverbials in Argumentative Writing” (English Teaching, vol. 68(4), 2013).