Between margins and machines: Agency and digital literacy in rural-urban migrant children's digital use
American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting / Los Angeles, USA
Talks
Presentations, invited talks, and public-facing research conversations.
2026
From L2 text to L1 voice: AI audio for reading equity and inclusion among multilingual learners
American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting / Los Angeles, USA
When pens speak: Rethinking field and material in a posthumanist educational ethnography with children
American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting / Los Angeles, USA
2025
"I don't count": Identity negotiation and family language dynamics of rural-urban migrants
Canadian Sociological Association Annual Conference / Toronto, Canada
"I don't count": Identity negotiation and family language dynamics of rural-urban migrants
Oxford Ethnography and Education Conference / Oxford, UK
Agency and critical digital literacy: Rural migrant children's negotiation of digital resources use in urban China
Literacy Research Association 75th Annual Conference / Las Vegas, USA
Emotions at home: Affective scratches to evoke translanguaging practices
Canadian Association of Applied Linguistics Annual Conference / Toronto, Canada
Ideological borders and language use of Chinese rural-urban migrants
Partnership Conference by Queen's University Belfast & The University of British Columbia / Belfast, UK
Social class dynamics and family language policy
LLED Research Seminar / The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Social class dynamics and family language policy: The case of rural migrant families in urban China
International Graduate Student Research Symposium / UBC
Arts-based literacy activities as third space for authoring religious and multilingual identities among immigrant children
Canadian Society for the Study of Education Annual Conference / Toronto, Canada
Arts-based literacy activities as third space for authoring religious and multilingual identities among immigrant children
Literacy Research Association 75th Annual Conference / Las Vegas, USA
Scaffolding superdiverse children's claiming of plurilingual identities through multimodal responses to arts-based cultural probes
American Association for Applied Linguistics Annual Conference / Denver, USA
2024
Diffracting researcher-practitioners' identities in EAL education business in Canada
Canadian Association of Applied Linguistics Annual Conference / Montreal, Canada
Disrupting English Language Teaching with Feminist New Materialism in for-profit summer camps
BC Teachers of English as Additional Language Annual Conference / Vancouver, Canada
Negotiating identity and family language planning in rural-urban migration
UBC Centre of Migration Studies Grad Fellow Symposium / Vancouver, Canada
The influences of family environment on children's multilingual development
Peekaboo Forum WeChat Official Platform / Online
The university campus as a material agent: Diffracting English language business education
Canadian Society for the Study of Higher Education Annual Conference / Montreal, Canada
Cantonese-speaking parents' attitudes and practices in sustaining childhood bidialectalism in Canada: A longitudinal study
Literacy Research Association 74th Annual Conference / Atlanta, USA
Changing contexts, changing language attitudes: A longitudinal study of Cantonese-Canadian families' divergent paths toward childhood bidialectalism in Vancouver
Canadian Society for the Study of Education Annual Conference / Montreal, Canada
Examining the relationship between teacher self-efficacy and child vocabulary development: The mediating role of child learning behavior
Annual Conference of the Association for Reading and Writing in Asia / Jeju, South Korea
Immigrant children's monolingual becoming in Canada: The serious impact of language ideologies and practices across multilingual spaces
Canadian Society for the Study of Education Annual Conference / Montreal, Canada
Language ideologies in global contexts: A longitudinal study of Cantonese-Canadian families' divergent paths toward childhood bidialectalism
American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting / Philadelphia, USA
Language ideology, linguistic violence, and systemic racism in formal and informal spaces in and out of school: A case study of monolingualism reproduction for newcomer multilingual children in Canada
American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting / Philadelphia, USA
Multilingual children's monolingual becoming: The effect of monolingual habitus reproduction across educational spaces
Literacy Research Association 74th Annual Conference / Atlanta, USA
Shared parent-child book reading as a moderator for the link between home language and children's receptive vocabulary development
International Congress for the Study of Child Language / Prague, Czech Republic
2023
A bibliometric analysis on family language policy in bi/multilingual Chinese families
AsiaTEFL International Conference / Daejeon, South Korea
Family language policy research in relation to China: A critical review
UBC LLED Graduate Student Conference / Vancouver
Power relations around children: Schools and families
Peekaboo Forum WeChat Official Platform / Online
"Now I've started to like reading!": Superdiverse students' literacy motivation and engagement in a university-community-school partnership program
Society for the Scientific Study of Reading Annual Meeting / Port Douglas, Australia
Resistance to neoliberal hybridity and hyperflexibility: Discourse analysis as methodology
UBC LLED Graduate Student Conference / Vancouver, Canada
The impact of an after-school reading program on immigrant students' L2 reading motivation and literacy engagement
Annual Meeting Ensuring Full Literacy in a Multicultural and Digital World / Vancouver, Canada
2022
Classroom shared book reading in rural China: What predicts child expressive vocabulary?
Annual Conference of the Association for Reading and Writing in Asia / Hong Kong
2021
AI-assisted online literacy education for early childhood in China
China Education Symposium at Harvard University / Cambridge, USA
The questioning and feedback strategies of preschool teachers in rural China
American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting / Online