Youngjoo Yi is an Associate Professor in Foreign, Second, and Multilingual Language Education in the College of Education and Human Ecology at the Ohio State University. Yi’s teaching has revolved around middle and secondary students’ English language learning in the United States and Asia, K-16 world/heritage language instruction and graduate-level courses in TESOL and literacy education.

As an applied linguist and qualitative researcher, her research centers on the language and literacy experiences of multilingual students and their identity construction. Drawing from sociocultural perspectives of language and literacy learning, her work has explored how adolescent multilingual students engage in multilingual, digital, and multimodal learning across informal and formal contexts and negotiate their identities through multiple language and literacy practices.

Most recently, she has conducted research on digital and multimodal literacy practices of transnational children and families. She is currently a co-editor for TESOL Journal, with Peter Sayer (OSU). Her work has appeared in Applied Linguistics, Journal of Second Language Writing, TESOL Quarterly, Canadian Modern Language Review, Computers and Composition, Foreign Language Annals, and others.