Min Wang，博士

Dr. Min Wang is an assistant professor in TESOL and Bilingual Education at Wenzhou-Kean University. Her research interests include, but are not limited to, second language acquisition, multimodality and semiotics, English language learners’ identities, multiculturalism and multilingualism, and linguistic racism. She published 12 articles in internationally recognized journals. Her recent book, Multimodalities and Chinese students’ L2 practices: Positioning, agency, and community, explored the complicated interactions among multimodality, positioning, and agency in increasingly digitized, multilingual, and multicultural contexts in and through which Chinese international students practiced their L2 literacies. Positioned as cultural, linguistic, and digital beings, these L2 learners assumed rights, obligations, and expectations to become legitimate community members. In the process of becoming, their agency was negotiated, promoted, or sometimes restricted by micro-social structures and ongoing discourse of power.

Dr. Wang serves on the Editorial Advisory Board for the Journal of Asian Pacific Communication and is a Sitting Advisory Board member for NYS TESOL Journal. She is also a reviewer for several academic journals, such as Journal of Language, Identity & Education and Journal of Literacy Research. Dr. Wang reviewed a book proposal titled Multimodal literacies for multimodal identities: Education in times of digitalization and global crises for Routledge in 2020. Dr. Wang is a reviewer for national and international conference proposals, including those hosted by American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL) and American Educational Research Association (AERA). Dr. Wang also serves on the Narrative SIG Dissertation Committee for AERA and the Best Dissertation Award Committee for National Association for Bilingual Education (NABE). She is a former SIG Chair and now she is the Advisory Board Chair at NABE.

阿拉巴马大学，塔斯卡卢萨，阿拉巴马州，美国，2016

中等教育博士学位

阿肯色理工大学，罗素维尔，美国，2012

对外英语教学硕士学位

华东师范大学，上海，中国

教育管理和教学领导硕士

Advanced Seminar II: Action Research in ESL/EFL Teaching & Learning (TESL 5099)

An Introduction to General Linguistics (TESL 5105)

Methods for Teaching English Language Learners in ESL/EFL Settings: Standards-Based Approach (TESL 5420)

Wenzhou-Kean University, Wenzhou, China, 2021-

Assistant Professor, The Graduate Program of TESOL

St. John’s University, Queens, New York, 2016 – 2021

Assistant Professor, Department of Education Specialties/ TESOL/Bilingual Education

The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, 2014-2016

Research Assistant, Department of Curriculum & Instruction

The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, summer 2015

Student Assistant, the Education Library

The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama  2013

Teaching Assistant, the Department of Modern Languages and Classics

Book(s)

Wang, M. (2020). Multimodalities and Chinese students’ L2 practices: Positioning, agency, and community. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.

Book Chapter

Wang, M., & Ness, D. (2021). “I see myself as another teacher”: Co-Teaching practice for ELLs in a science class. In B. Yoon (Eds). Effective teacher collaboration for ELLs: Cross-curricular insights from K-12 classrooms Routledge Research in Language Education Series. New York: Routledge.

Hong, H., Liwanag, M. P. U., Liu, X., & Wang, M. “Multicultural Children’s Literature” to be included in R. Milner & J. Bennett (Eds.). Teaching and Teacher Education. Bloomsbury Publishing.

Articles

Wang, M. (first round of revision) “Why should I not speak my own language (Chinese) in public in America?”: Linguistic racism, positioning, and agency. TESOL Quarterly.

Hong, H., Cai, Q., & Wang, M. (under review) Exploring Young Children’s Argumentation as a Social Intertextual Practice. Journal of Early Childhood Literacy.

Louick, R., & Wang, M. (2021). Classroom discourse and learning disability: Interactional opportunities for development of self-determination beliefs. The Journal of Educational Research, 114(1), 52-63. https://doi.org/10.1080/00220671.2021.1872475

Wang, M. (2020). “They make me who I am today”: A science teacher’s narrated        positioning, agency, and mediated pedagogy with bilingual and multilingual students. Journal of Multilingual Education Research, 10(5), 85-104.

Wang, M. (2020). Satellite baby students’ lived experiences, TESOL teacher candidates’ positioning, agency, and pedagogy. Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 18(1), 41-64. https://doi.org/10.1080/15427587.2020.1796483

Wang, M., & Louick, R. (2020). Positioning and motivation: A discourse analysis of   classroom interactions between teacher and students with disabilities. Learning       Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 25(2), 27-39 https://doi.org/10.18666/ldmj-    2020-v25-i2-10310

Wang, M. (2020). “It is a constant struggle of trying to ‘stick to my roots’”: A narrative inquiry of an immigrant’s identities-in-making. Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 17(3),166-185. https://doi.org/10.1080/15427587.2020.1713786

Wang, M., & Spiridakis, J. (2018). Funds of knowledge and critical pedagogy. TESOL Encyclopedia of English Language Teaching.

Wang, M., & Pratt-Johnson, Y. (2017). Using historical insight and digital tools to teach idioms to L2 learners: A response to Carla Zimmerman-Edison’s “Teaching and learning English idioms in the L2 classroom” NYS TESOL Journal, 2 (4), 86-89.

Wang, M. (2017). Teaching idioms: Theories and practices. International Conference “Society and Languages in the Third Millennium” Proceedings. 1-14. Springer.

Wang, M. (2016). The impact of cultural values on Chinese students in American higher education. The Qualitative Report, 21(4), 611-629.

Wang, M. (2016). Technology-mediated L2 literacies and identity development. Journal of Teaching English for Specific and Academic Purposes, 3(3), 467-481.

Wang, M. (2015). A humanized pedagogy to second language literacy practices. The English Lingua Journal, 1(2), 93-108.

Wang, M. (2015). “Web-based supplementary materials and new literacies learning.” Research Brief No. 23.   http://education.ua.edu/centers/ortd/research-briefs/

WORKS IN PROGRESS

Books

Wang, M. (in preparation). The influence of TESOL teachers’ understanding of their bilingual and multilingual speaking students’ and satellite baby students’ life stories on their self-positioning, agency, and pedagogical practices. New York: Routledge.

Hong, H., Wang, M., & Keith, K. (to be in contract) Writing Critically with Multilingual Learners. to be included in E. Blake (Ed.). Writing in the Disciplines for the Professions. NY: DIO Press.

Articles

Wang, M. (in preparation) Speech acts, positioning, and agency: A multimodal discourse analysis of WeChat discussion.

Wang, M. & Ogodo, J. (in preparation) Culturally responsive teaching in Science and English Arts classes

Wang, M. & Hong, H. (in preparation) “You know what I mean?”: Speech acts, power, and positioning

Wang, M. & Hong, H. (in preparation) Emotions as positioning and agency: A TESOL teacher candidate’s learning and teaching narratives

Wang, M & McDevitt, S. (in preparation) Name stories: Exploring in-service teachers‘ positioning, agency, and culturally responsive pedagogy

Wang, M & Simon, M. (in preparation) Female immigrant scholars’ life stories: Microaggression, positioning, and agency

Wang, M.& Hong, H. (in preparation) Multilingual speakers’ English language learning experience, positioning, and community membership

Hong, H, Cai, Q, & Wang, M. (2022, April 21-26). Exploring Children’s Argumentation as a Heuristic Intertextual Practice will be presented at the AERA Annual Meeting.

Louick, R, & Wang, M. (2021, April 9-12). Classroom Discourse and Disability: Interactional Opportunities for Development of Self-Determination Beliefs was presented at the AERA   Annual Meeting.

Ness, D, Wang, M, & Li, H. (2021, March 20-23). Emotions as Positioning and Agency: A TESOL Teacher Candidate’s Learning and Teaching Narratives was presented at American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL).

Wang, M. (2020, Apr 17 – 21) “Why Should I Not Speak [Chinese] in Public in America?” Speech Acts, Positioning, and Agency [Paper Session]. AERA Annual Meeting San Francisco, CA http://tinyurl.com/wlj5qxf (Conference Canceled)

Wang, M. (2020, Apr 17 – 21) Saving Mianzi: A Cultural and Interactional Context for Positioning and Agency Through WeChat Discussion [Roundtable Session]. AERA Annual Meeting San Francisco, CA http://tinyurl.com/vnzuwpn (Conference Canceled)

Wang, M. & Louick, R. (2020, Apr 17 – 21) Positioning and Motivation: A Discourse Analysis of Classroom Interactions Between Teacher and Students with Disabilities [Poster Session]. AERA Annual Meeting San Francisco, CA http://tinyurl.com/ugkyy3f (Conference Canceled)

Wang, M. (02/2020). “Emergent Bilinguals’ Lived Experiences and Teachers’ Agency: A Narrative Analysis of Two Teaching Reflections” was accepted by the 49^th Annual Conference of National Association for Bilingual Education (NABE) in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Wang, M. (10/2019). “How English language learners use resources to negotiate their agency and position in society” presented at Northeastern Educational Research Association in Trumbull, Connecticut.

Wang, M. (10/2019). “Satellite Baby Students’ Live experiences, TESOL Teacher Candidates’ Positioning, Agency, and Pedagogy” presented at Northeastern Educational Research Association in Trumbull, Connecticut.

Wang, M., & Ness, D. (08/2019). “Identity, Membership, and Skin Color: Through a Lens of Positioning Theory to Understand a Multilingual Speaker’s Struggle for a Sense of Belonging” presented at British Association of Applied Linguistic Conference in Manchester, the UK.

Wang, M. & Ness, D. (04/2019). “‘It’s a modified version of myself’: An Immigrant Student’s Narrative of Language Learning” presented at the American Education Research Association (AERA) in Toronto, Canada.

Wang, M. (03/2019). “No, I mean, where are you originally from?”: An Immigrant Student’  Identity Negotiation” presented at 48^th Annual Conference of National Association for Bilingual Education (NABE) in Lake Buena Vista, Florida.

Wang, M. (10/2018). “Textualization of Social Positioning and Agency in a WeChat Discussion Group” presented at 49^th Annual Conference of Northeastern Educational Research Association (NERA) in Trumbull, Connecticut.

Wang, M. (10/2018). “Verbal and Non-Verbal Communication as Social Positioning and Agency” presented at 49^th Annual Conference of Northeastern Educational Research Association (NERA) in Trumbull, Connecticut.

Wang, M., & Ness, D. (06/2018). “Influences of Chinese Names and Keepsakes on L2 Learners’ Identity Construction and Agency Achievement: presented at the Conference of International Society for Language Studies (ISLS) at Waterloo, Toronto.

Wang, M. (05/2018). “Social Positioning, Agency, and Critical Pedagogy” presented at Fourteenth Congress of Qualitative Inquiry (QI) at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Wang, M. (04/2018). “‘Can You Speak English?’”: A Chinese ELI Student’s Positioning and Agency” presented at AERA in New York.

Wang, M. (04/2018). “ELLs’ Lived Experiences as Pedagogy: A Discourse Analysis of a Teacher’s Teaching Narratives” presented at the American Association for the Advancement of Curriculum Studies (AAACS) in New York.

Wang. M. (03/2018). “‘I Know What Their Struggles Look Like Because I Was There’: Social Positioning, Agency, and L2 Teaching” presented at the American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL) Conference in Chicago.

Wang, M. (02/2018). “Chinese Symbolic and Material Artifacts, Agency, and Identity Development” presented at 14^th Annual Globalization, Diversity, and Education Conference at Washington State University.

Wang, M., & Pratt-Johnson, Y. (11/2017). “From Monologue to Dialogue: Easing Newly Arrived Chinese Speakers into the Interactive English Language Classroom” presented at the Conference of Languages for Specific Purposes in Higher Education-Current Trends, Approaches and Issues in Prague.

Wang, M. (04/2017). “Teaching Idioms: Theories and Practices” presented at the International Conference “Society and Languages in the Third Millennium” at Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia, Moscow.

Wang, M. & Liu, D. (03/2017). “We Chat Discussion: A Mobile-Networked Community of L2 Literacies and Identity Negotiation” presented at the AAAL Conference in Portland, Oregon.

Wang, M. (03/2017). “WeChat: A Smartphone-Mediated Community of L2 Literacies Practices” presented at the International Conference, “Media Literacy in Foreign Language Learning: Digital and Multimodal Perspectives” at The Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat in Munich, Germany.

Wang, M. & Pratt-Johnson, Y. (11/2016). “The Case for an Interactive Classroom” presented at the International Conference of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) for English Learning, Florence, Italy.

Wang, M. (03/2016). “Speaking English: Breaking out of ‘Chinatown’” presented at the Educational Studies in Psychology, Research Methodology, and Counseling (ESPRMC) Annual Symposium at The University of Alabama.

Wang, M. (04/2015). “Multimodality and L2 Literacies” presented at the American Education Research Association (AERA) Conference in Chicago, Illinois.

Wang, M, (02/2015). “The Integration of L2 Reading to L2 Writing” presented at the Texas Foreign Language Education Conference (TexFLEC) in San Antonio, Texas.

Wang, M. (11/2014). “Reflections on Neoliberalism, Caring, and Disability.” presented at the University Council for Educational Administration (UCEA) Conference in Washington D.C.

Wang, M. (11/2014). “The Second Language Literacy Development of Chinese ELI students” presented at the Mid-South Educational Research Association (MSERA) Conference in Knoxville, TN.

Wang, M. (05/2014). “Chinese Students in American Higher Education: A Case Study” presented at the International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry (ICQI) Conference at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL.

Wang, M. (04/2014). “The Impact of Cultural Values on Chinese Students in American Higher Education: Adapting to the Unfamiliar” presented at the Asian Pacific Americans in Higher Education (APAHE) Conference in San Francisco, CA.

Wang, M. (04/2014). “The Influences of Classroom Environment on Learning” presented at ESPRMC Annual Symposium at The University of Alabama.

Wang, M. (02/2014). “The Moral Dilemmas of Patriotism in Education” presented at the Southeast Philosophy of Education Society (SEPES) Conference in Atlanta, GA.

Wang, M. (03/3019). Multiculturalism and Multilingualism in the School System on Staten Campus at St. John’s University.

Wang, M. (05/2018). Developing Positive Identities through Daily Conversations between Parents and Their Children at the Parent Conference sponsored by Journey Pre School and St. John’s University.

Wang, M. (03/2021) AERA Multicultural/Multiethnic Education SIG Early Career     Scholar Conference Grant

Wang, M. (09/2018). St. John’s University Faculty Recognition Award ($1,000)

Wang, M. (03/2015). The AERA Second Language Research SIG travel grant award ($500)

Wang, M. (04/2013). Anna & Harold Paige Scholarship College of Education, The University of Alabama ($1,500)

Wang, M., & Ness, D. (10/2019) (Revised and Resubmitted). “Resilience, Access, and Imagination for Success in Education” for Title 1 Nonpublic Schools Supplemental Instructional Services ($1,500,000, pending) (Co-Principal Investigator)

Wang, M. (4/2019). The Influence of Adult English Language Learners’ (ELLs)’ Positive Self- Positioning and Agency on Their Classroom Interactions for Richard and Camille Sinatra Endowment Grant ($1, 500 Awarded)

Wang, M. (4/2018). “Satellite Babies’ Lived Experiences, TESOL Teachers’ Positioning, Agency, and Pedagogy” for Summer Support of Research Grant ($10,000 Awarded)

Wang, M. (4/2018). “ELLs’ Life Stories and Teachers’ Agency: A Discourse Analysis of Two ELL Teaching Narratives” for the Global Conference Grant ($1,000 Awarded)

Wang, M. (05/2015). AERA Second Language Research SIG Travel Grant American Education Research Association ($500 Awarded)

AAAL (American Association for Applied Linguistics)             2014-present

AERA (American Education Research Association)                  2014-present

ICQI (International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry)               2015-2018

ISLS (International Societies for Language Studies)                2016-2018

NABE (National Association for Bilingual Education)               2018-present

NERA (Northeastern Educational Research Association)             2018-2019

Editorial Responsibility

Advisory Editorial Board Member, Journal of Asian Pacific Communication  (2017-present)

Sitting Advisory Board Member, NYS TESOL Journal (2018-present)

Book, Journal, and Conference Reviewer

Reviewer for a book proposal entitled Multimodal Literacies for Multimodal Identities: Education in times of digitalization and global crises with Routledge (2020)

Reviewer for Journal of Literacy Research (2021-present)

Reviewer for Journal of Language, Identity & Education (2017-present)

Reviewer of Conference Proposals for AERA (2015-present)

Reviewer of Conference Proposals for NERA (2018)

Reviewer of Conference Proposals for AAAL (2019-present)

Service to Academic Organizations

Nominated for the position of chair for National Association for Bilingual Education (NABE) (2020-2021)

Nominated for the position of AERA Narrative SIG Secretary (2018)

Nominated for the position of President-Elect of International Society for Language Studies (2018)

Program Development

Developed the accelerated five-year baccalaureate/master’s program in Childhood
Education (BS) and TESOL (MS) (2018)

Developed the accelerated five-year baccalaureate/master’s program in Adolescent
Education (BS) and TESOL (MS) (2018)

Committee Membership and Conference Discussant

Served on the Graduate Studies Committee at St. John’s University (2017-2019)

Served on the Dissertation Handbook Committee at St. John’s University (2018-2019)

Serve as a committee member for the Bilingual Education Outstanding Dissertation Committee at National Association for Bilingual Education (NABE) (2019-present)

Serve as a committee member for the Narrative SIG Outstanding Dissertation Committee at AERA (2018-present)

Served as a discussant at 49^th Annual Conference of Northeastern Educational
Research Association (NERA) in Trumbull, Connecticut (2018)

International Connections

Coordinator who invited Dr. Bonny Norton to St. John’s University to present her research at School of Education’s Elizabeth Gavin Lectures Serie Presentation (2019)

Coordinator who invited Dr. Eva Lam to St. John’s University to present her research at School of Education’s Elizabeth Gavin Lectures Series Presentation (2018)

Coordinator who made connections with the School of Education at East China Normal University (2018)

Coordinator who invited the Dean of Foreign Language at Linyin University, Shandong China to visit St. John’s University to discuss possible plans for cooperation (2017)

Coordinator who invited East China Normal University, Shanghai China to visit St. John’s University to discuss possible plans for cooperation (2017)

Advisor, Mentor, and Volunteer

Serve as an advisor for graduate students at Wenzhou-Kean University (2021-present)

Served as an advisor for graduate students at St. John’s University (2016-2021)

Mentor for Elizabeth Ann Seton Scholar recipient (2017-2020)

Served as a translator for Chinese teachers visiting the Department of Human
Development and Family Studies at the University of Alabama (2015)

Served as a tour leader for Graduate Orientation and Welcome at the University of Alabama (2014)

Volunteered as a Chinese translator for teacher-parent conference at Tuscaloosa City Schools (2014)