Min Jung Jee

Dr. Min Jung Jee is Senior Lecturer and Korean Major Convenor in the School of Languages and Cultures, Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, at the University of Queensland. She earned her PhD in Applied Linguistics specializing in Foreign Language Education from the University of Texas at Austin. With over two decades of experience in language education, she taught and coordinated English language programs in South Korea for 10 years, taught and coordinated Korean language courses at the University of Texas at Austin for 5 years, and has been teaching and coordinating Korean language courses at the University of Queensland since 2014. In 2019, she was awarded Fellow status from the Higher Education Academy, recognizing excellence in teaching and learning. She supervises higher degree by research students on topics such as heritage language maintenance, ethnic Korean churches, and EFL motivation.

Min Jung Jee's research lies at the intersection of applied linguistics, psychology, and migration studies, with expertise in heritage language maintenance and identity, immigrant acculturation and psychological adaptation, and affective factors in language learning, including anxiety, motivation, beliefs, and self-efficacy among Korean diaspora communities and other language learners. Her work has attracted external funding, including Academy of Korean Studies grants for developing UQ as a hub for Korean Studies (2021–2028, Deputy Project Director), exploring language practices in Korean families (2026–2027), Korean as a foreign language learners' motivation (2024–2025), heritage language use and ethnic identity (2021–2022), and language anxiety among Korean immigrants (2019–2020). Key publications include 'Cultural adaptation of 1.5- and second-generation Koreans in Australia: The role of the heritage language' (2026, Australian Review of Applied Linguistics); 'Acculturation Strategies on Sociocultural Adaptation and Psychological Well-Being: First-Generation South Korean Immigrants in Australia' (2025, Journal of International Migration and Integration); 'Korean language learners’ motivation, remotivation, and demotivation: the Australian and New Zealand contexts' (2025, Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development); chapters in Rethinking the Asian language learning paradigm in Australia (2024); and 'Communicative anxiety among Korean immigrants in Australia: causes and coping strategies' (2022, Australian Review of Applied Linguistics). Her research informs multicultural education, heritage language programs, and immigrant settlement services.

Professional Email: m.jee@uq.edu.au