Huijing Wen

Huijing Wen , Ph.D., is an associate professor in the Education Department at Moravian University. A former Fulbright scholar and a former professor of English, Dr. Wen has extensive experience in teaching English both as a first language and a second language across age groups. Her research interests focus on understandings ways to improve teaching and learning in the language art classrooms, including early writing development and instruction, digital literacy, and cross-cultural literacy instructional practices. Her work includes book chapters, edited books on English language learning, and research articles published in impactful journals such as Reading and Writing, Elementary School Journal, Journal of Writing Research, Computers and Education, Current Psychology, etc. She has also translated many works in English literature to Chinese. As a teacher educator, Dr. Wen is passionate about preparing pre- and in-service teachers to teach English literacy skills to monolingual and multilingual students in the digital classrooms.

Publications

Understanding Beginning Writers' Narrative Writing With a Multidimensional Assessment Approach
Understanding Beginning Writers' Narrative Writing With a Multidimensional Assessment Approach
Huijing Wen, Daibao Guo. © 2023. 37 pages.
Writing is thought to be the most complex facet of language arts. Assessing writing is difficult and subjective, and few scientifically validated assessments exist. Research has...
“Suspending Classes Without Pauses for Learning”: What Do Chinese Secondary Teachers Think About Remote Teaching Following the Pandemic?
“Suspending Classes Without Pauses for Learning”: What Do Chinese Secondary Teachers Think About Remote Teaching Following the Pandemic?
Huijing Wen, Lei Chen. © 2022. 20 pages.
This qualitative study investigated Chinese secondary teachers' perceptions and experiences of remote teaching immediately following the pandemic. Forty-two secondary...
Developing Teachers as Writers: Teacher Candidates' Perceptions of Digital Multimodal Composition
Developing Teachers as Writers: Teacher Candidates' Perceptions of Digital Multimodal Composition
Valerie Harlow Shinas, Huijing Wen, Daibao Guo. © 2022. 20 pages.
With the emergence of digital composing tools and daily immersion in social media, email, and other forms of digital writing, today's teachers must be prepared to teach...