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When pens speak: Rethinking field and material in a new-materialist educational ethnography with children
International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education
Posthumanist exploration on field and material agencies.
Publications
My academic writings.
I keep this archive focused on published and accepted work. First-author and corresponding-author pieces are placed first within each year.
Featured
02
Intersectional performativity framework: A collective reflexivity in ethics on ethnographic research with vulnerable groups in China
Qualitative Inquiry
Reflecting on how we "perform" in field.
03
"I just only speak English English": Stakeholders' language ideologies and multilingual children's monolingual becoming
Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1-16
How monolingual ideologies reach kids.
04
English Language Curriculum Model for Chinese Children
Tsinghua University Press
Curriculum taxonomy I built at Zebra AI, based on language development and learning science research.
05
Friend or foe? A mixed-methods study on the impact of digital device use on Chinese-Canadian children's heritage language learning
Digital Studies in Language and Literature, 1(1-2), 55-84
Traced hundreds of kids over 3 years and talked with their parents.
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Two worlds in one city: A sociopolitical perspective on Chinese urban families' language planning
Current Issues in Language Planning, 22(4), 383-407
Based on my B.A. thesis. My most cited one so far.
2026
When pens speak: Rethinking field and material in a new-materialist educational ethnography with children
International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education
Arts-based literacy activities as third space for authoring religious and multilingual identities among immigrant children
In A. Zabrodskaja & H. Zhu, Routledge Studies in Language and Intercultural Communication
From monolingualism to plurilingualism: Multimodal arts-based cultural probes as catalysts for linguistic justice in an afterschool literacy program
The Reading Teacher, 79(6), e70045
2025
Intersectional performativity framework: A collective reflexivity in ethics on ethnographic research with vulnerable groups in China
Qualitative Inquiry
"I just only speak English English": Stakeholders' language ideologies and multilingual children's monolingual becoming
Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1-16
"Now I've started to like reading [in English only]!": Promises and pitfalls of a university-community-school partnership program for superdiverse students' literacy motivation and engagement
In P. Edwards, C. Compton-Lilly, and G. Li (Eds.), International Handbook of Literacies in Families and Communities. Edward Elgar Publishing
Developments and Directions in Chinese Family Language Policy Research: A Global Perspective (千家千律：全球视角下华语家庭语言政策研究)
Journal of Global Research on Chinese Development (全球中文发展研究), 5, 120-144
Digital devices use and Chinese-Canadian first graders' early English literacy development: A mixed-methods study
Education Sciences, 15(1), 48
Language ideologies in glocal contexts: A longitudinal study of Cantonese-Canadian families' divergent paths toward childhood bidialectalism
Urban Education
Legitimizing plurilingual and pluricultural identities: Designing an arts-infused cultural-historical activity system
Canadian Modern Language Review, 81(4), 299-325
2024
Beiou gaoxiao de duowaiyu jiaoyu [The parallel language use in Nordic higher education: A language policy perspective]
In Y. Zheng (Ed.), Gaodeng jiaoyu guojihua beijing xia de gaoxiao duowaiyu jiaoyu yu Fudan moshi [Multilingual education in higher education institutions under the context of internationalization of higher education: The Fudan model]. Fudan University Press
Book review on Remaking multilingualism: A translanguaging approach
International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 1-4
English Language Curriculum Model for Chinese Children
Tsinghua University Press
Friend or foe? A mixed-methods study on the impact of digital device use on Chinese-Canadian children's heritage language learning
Digital Studies in Language and Literature, 1(1-2), 55-84
2021
Two worlds in one city: A sociopolitical perspective on Chinese urban families' language planning
Current Issues in Language Planning, 22(4), 383-407