Congcong Wang

Dr. Congcong Wang (Ph.D. in Language, Literacy, and Technology, Washington State University) is an editor, researcher, translator, bilingual writer, online course developer, and the vice-president of the Iowa Chinese Language Teachers Association. She has a master’s degree in Bilingual/ELL Education and B.A. in English. Her research focuses primarily upon computer-assisted language learning, cross-cultural psychology, and teachers’ awareness of development and cultural studies. Her qualitative and quantitative research has appeared in the International Journal of Computer-Assisted Language Learning and Teaching, and the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. She presents regularly at conferences such as ACTFL, NCOLCTL, CLTA, and NAR bicentennial. Across the United States and China, she has developed a variety of technology-enhanced face-to-face, hybrid, and online courses offered in synchronous and asynchronous formats for four universities and over 10 programs. She has taught a wide array of university courses, including Beginning to Advanced Chinese language, culture, literature, media, history, and instructional technology, as well as EFL/ESL education at the K-12 level. At the University of Northern Iowa, she relishes working with her colleagues in Languages and Literatures who have given her great support in developing this book. In addition to academic publications, she has also published short stories in Chinese, traditional and digital art works, a children’s book, and translations. With an interest in bridging cultures and introducing Asian artists to western audiences, she has performed many Chinese-English translations of international research projects, poetry, interviews, documentaries, commercials, and non-profit organizations. She reviews translated poetry for the North American Review, the oldest literary magazine in the United States. She enjoys her collaboration with diverse researchers on international research projects and technology-assisted learning programs for student-athletes, migrant students, preservice teachers, and international scholars.

Publications

Chinese Foreign Language Online Course Design to Improve English Monolingual Teachers' Awareness of ELLs: A Linguistic, Cultural, and Technological Awareness Development and Transfer Model
Chinese Foreign Language Online Course Design to Improve English Monolingual Teachers' Awareness of ELLs: A Linguistic, Cultural, and Technological Awareness Development and Transfer Model
Congcong Wang. © 2022. 26 pages.
To improve English monolingual teachers' awareness of obstacles that English language learners (ELL) may encounter at school, in 2012 the author conducted a study to explore...
From Preservice to Inservice: Can Practicing Foreign Language Learning Online Help Teachers Transfer Linguistic, Cultural, and Technological Awareness Into Teaching English Language Learners?
From Preservice to Inservice: Can Practicing Foreign Language Learning Online Help Teachers Transfer Linguistic, Cultural, and Technological Awareness Into Teaching English Language Learners?
Congcong Wang. © 2019. 23 pages.
Wang (2012) suggested that preservice teachers perceived that their initial experiences as online language learners increased their linguistic, cultural and technological...
Chinese Foreign Language Online Course Design to Improve English Monolingual Teachers' Awareness of ELLs: A Linguistic, Cultural, and Technological Awareness Development and Transfer Model
Chinese Foreign Language Online Course Design to Improve English Monolingual Teachers' Awareness of ELLs: A Linguistic, Cultural, and Technological Awareness Development and Transfer Model
Congcong Wang. © 2018. 26 pages.
To improve English monolingual teachers' awareness of obstacles that English language learners (ELL) may encounter at school, in 2012 the author conducted a study to explore...
Handbook of Research on Foreign Language Education in the Digital Age
Handbook of Research on Foreign Language Education in the Digital Age
Congcong Wang, Lisa Winstead. © 2016. 460 pages.
The role of technology in the learning process can offer significant contributions to help meet the increasing needs of students. In the field of language acquisition, new...
French-Chinese Dialogical Interaction via Web Collaborative Blog-Writing: Code-Switching to Extend Online Tandem Language Learning
French-Chinese Dialogical Interaction via Web Collaborative Blog-Writing: Code-Switching to Extend Online Tandem Language Learning
Ya Rao, Congcong Wang, Jacob Bender. © 2016. 27 pages.
This qualitative study explores how a French-Chinese web collaborative blog-writing project provides a space for understanding the various metalinguistic approaches that foreign...