Yun Sil Jeon
Associate Professor, Spanish

Contact Yun Sil Jeon
843-349-6604 yjeon@coastal.eduBrittain Hall 217
Fall 2023 Office Hours
Tuesdays/Thursdays 1:30 - 3:00pm
or by appointments via Zoom.
*Please send me an email with a couple of dates and times you are available, and I will send you a Zoom invite.
If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his own language, that goes to his heart." - Nelson Mandela
Biography
Dr. Jeon was born in South Korea but she moved to Argentina when she was eight years old. She got her Ph.D. in Spanish Linguistics in Madrid, Spain, and her dissertation was a Sociolinguistics study about the Korean community in Argentina. Since then she has kept on studying the Korean community in Argentina and she has broaden the field to the Korean community in Thailand where she has lived seven years working as Vice Director of Latin American Studies Center in Chulalongkorn University. Another field of interest related with her doctoral dissertation is Spanish Grammar and the Teaching of Spanish as a Second Language.
Education
Ph.D. in Spanish Linguistics and Theory of Literature, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 2000
Interesting Facts
True to the spirit of globalization of this century her family has lived in New Zealand, Spain, Argentina, Thailand and US; she is Korean-Argentinean, her husband is Spanish and their daughter was born in Bangkok. The languages spoken in her family in a broad sense are Spanish, Korean, Catalan, French and English. She consider traveling as way of life.
Teaching Areas
Spanish Linguistics, Sociolinguistics Studies, Spanish Grammar, Teaching of Spanish as a Second Language.
Research Areas
Spanish Linguistics, Sociolinguistics Studies, Spanish Grammar, Teaching of Spanish as a Second Language.