Research

Areas of Interest

  • Multilingual Writing

  • Technology Assisted Language Learning

  • Generative AI

  • Online/Hybrid Language Learning

  • Teaching English as a Second/Foreign Language

  • Language/Writing Teacher Development

  • Qualitative Research

  • Postdigital

My research draws upon multi- and inter-disciplinary perspectives in fields such as Applied Linguistics, Writing Studies, Cultural Anthropology, and Educational Technology.

Publications

Journal Articles

Wang, C., & Yazan, B. (2024). Negotiating identity tensions: Challenges of an online volunteer English language teacher in rural China. RELC Journal. https://doi.org/10.1177/00336882241275163

 

Li, Z., Wang, C., & Bonk, C. J. (2024). Exploring the utility of ChatGPT for self-directed online language learning. Online Learning, 28(3), 157-180. https://doi.org/10.24059/olj.v28i3.4497

Li, B., Lowell, V., Wang, C., & Li, X. (2024). A systematic review of the first year of publications on ChatGPT and language education: Examining research on ChatGPT’s use in language learning and teaching. Computers & Education: Artificial Intelligence. https://doi-org.colby.idm.oclc.org/10.1016/j.caeai.2024.100266

 

Wang, C., Li, Z., & Bonk, C. (2024). Understanding self-directed learning in AI-assisted writing: A mixed methods study of postsecondary learners. Computers and Education: Artificial Intelligence, 6. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.caeai.2024.100247

 

Wang, C. (2024). Exploring students’ generative AI-assisted writing processes: Perceptions and experiences from native and nonnative English speakers. Technology, Knowledge and Learning. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10758-024-09744-3

 

Wang, C., & Canagarajah, S. (2024). Postdigital ethnography in applied linguistics: Beyond the online and offline in language learning. Research Methods in Applied Linguistics, 3(2). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rmal.2024.100111

 

Li, B., Wang, C., Bonk, C., & Kou, X. (2024). Exploring inventions in self-directed language learning with generative AI: Implementations and perspectives of YouTube content creators. TechTrends. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11528-024-00960-3

Li, B., Bonk, C., Wang, C., Kou, X. (2024). Reconceptualizing self-directed learning in the era of generative AI: An exploratory analysis of language learning. IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, 17. https://doi.org/10.1109/TLT.2024.3386098

Wang, C., Qu, P., & Zhu, M. (2023). Course design practices using Open Educational Resources (OER)-enabled pedagogy in language teacher education. Journal of Applied Instructional Design, 12(4). https://doi.org/10.59668/806.13029

Wang, C., & Luo, Y. (2021). Selected poster presentations from the American Association of Applied Linguistics conference 2021: Analysis of interactions in a synchronous hybrid English class. Language Teaching, 54(4), 578-582. https://doi.org/10.1017/S026144482100029X 

 

Wang, C., Samuelson, B., & Silvester, K. (2020). Zhai nan, mai meng and filial piety: The translingual creativity of Chinese university students in an academic writing course. Journal of Global Literacies, Technologies, and Emerging Pedagogies, 6(2), 1120-1143.

 

Wang, C. (2016). Why are my Chinese students so quiet?: A classroom ethnographic study of Chinese students’ peer review activities in an American multilingual writing class. INTESOL Journal, 13(1).

 

Wang, C., Cheng, C., & Yao, L. (2012). College students’ voice in English Public Speaking education: A mixed-methods study. Shandong Foreign Language Teaching Journal, 33(3), 54-58. [In Chinese]

Book Chapters

Wang, C. (2022). English education enabled by technology: Stories from an online teacher for an under-sourced village school. In C. J. Bonk, & M. Zhu (Eds.), Transformative Teaching Around the World: Stories of Cultural Impact, Technology Integration, and Innovative Pedagogy, Routledge.

 

Pawan, F., & Wang, C. (2022). Online and hybrid research using case study and ethnographic approaches: A decision-making dialog between two researchers. In K. Dikilitaş & K. Reynolds (Eds.), Research methods in language teaching and learning: A practical guide, Wiley Blackwell.

 

Wang, C. (2019). The role of online teacher beliefs in a supplementary English e-learning class in rural China: An ethnographic case study. In R. Damerow & K. Bailey (Eds.), Global research on teaching and learning English: The Chinese-speaking volume, Routledge.

Conference Proceedings

Tu, X., Yang, J., Zhong, Q., Wang, C., & Maltese, A. (2022). E-textile fashion: Designing maker activity for Chinese migrant girls. International Conference of the Learning Sciences (LCLS) 2022 Volume Proceedings, 2130-2031, International Society of the Learning Sciences.

 

Wang, C. (2019). E-learning in rural China: Perspectives from online instructors and local teachers in rural elementary schools. In S. Carliner (Ed.), Proceedings of E-Learn: World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education (pp. 1018-1021). New Orleans, LA, United States: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education. https://www.learntechlib.org/primary/p/211200/.

 

Wang, C., Cheng, C., & Yao, L. (2014). Students’ perceptions of teaching and learning of English Public Speaking in China. In W. Ren, & Z. Tian. (Eds.), The Art of English Public Speaking: Practice, Teaching, & Research – Proceedings of the 2nd & 3rd National Symposiums on English Public Speaking, Beijing, China: Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press.

Other

 

Wang, C. (2024). AI-induced literacy crisis and linguistic policing: A writing teacher’s ponderings. Journal of Writing with and about AI.