{"id":40802291534,"date":"2025-11-26T09:01:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T14:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/?p=40802291534"},"modified":"2025-11-26T16:59:40","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T21:59:40","slug":"prof-wong-publishes-study-in-international-journal-of-applied-linguistics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/prof-wong-publishes-study-in-international-journal-of-applied-linguistics\/","title":{"rendered":"Prof. Wong Publishes Study in International Journal of Applied Linguistics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Cathy Wong, Ph.D., professor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction and M.Ed.\/ESL program director at Monmouth University, recently published an article, \u201cTranslanguaging as a Mediator to Motivate, Support, and Engage Students in a Chinese-Medium Instruction Program,\u201d in the International Journal of Applied Linguistics<\/a> (Wiley, 2025). Her work focuses on translanguaging, the use of a speaker\u2019s full linguistic repertoire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This study, supported by a transformative learning grant from the School of Education, originated from the Chinese-as-a-medium-of-instruction (CMI) summer program designed and directed by Wong. The research explores how multilingual, multimodal, and culturally relevant practices shaped students\u2019 motivation and engagement in a beginner-level CMI context.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Using multimodal conversation analysis, Wong analyzed classroom interactions and triangulated findings with ethnographic data derived from interviews with the CMI program\u2019s teacher and eight students. Her findings conclude that translanguaging is a mediator in \u201cenhancing motivation, building confidence, and making learning and writing Chinese characters more accessible and engaging.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wong suggests future research on this topic should expand to explore implementing translanguaging pedagogy across diverse educational contexts to examine its long-term impact on student motivation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read the full article online.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cathy Wong, Ph.D., professor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction and M.Ed.\/ESL program director at Monmouth University, recently published an article, \u201cTranslanguaging as a Mediator to Motivate, Support, and Engage Students in a Chinese-Medium Instruction Program,\u201d in the International Journal of Applied Linguistics (Wiley, 2025). Her work focuses on translanguaging, the use of a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":40802291552,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444,423,170],"tags":[1349,6396,6395],"person":[4529],"audience":[11,8,50,29],"school":[254,113],"program":[],"class_list":["post-40802291534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-monmouth-now","category-faculty-perspectives","category-research","tag-school-of-education","tag-transformative-learning-grant","tag-translanguaging","person-cathy-wong","audience-current-student","audience-faculty","audience-graduate-student","audience-media","school-curriculum-instruction","school-school-of-education"],"squareimage":{"id":40802291554,"rendered":"\"Headshot","original":{"url":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2025\/11\/Cathy-Wong-Headshotsquare.jpg","width":2400,"height":2400}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40802291534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40802291534"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40802291534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40802291564,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40802291534\/revisions\/40802291564"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40802291552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40802291534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40802291534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40802291534"},{"taxonomy":"person","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person?post=40802291534"},{"taxonomy":"audience","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/audience?post=40802291534"},{"taxonomy":"school","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/school?post=40802291534"},{"taxonomy":"program","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/program?post=40802291534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}