Vashti Wai Yu Lee
Biographic Data
| ID | 5153361 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Vashti Wai Yu Lee |
| GIVEN NAMES | Vashti Wai Yu |
| FAMILY NAME | Lee |
| SIGNATURE | LEE V W Y |
| AFFILIATIONS | Michigan State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9530-6982 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
(Re)centering social justice in world Englishes for the English language classroom
Building on three broad pedagogical approaches (raciolinguistics, culturally relevant pedagogy, and translanguaging) and three adjacent pedagogical efforts (valuing languages equally, addressing racialization and postcolonialism, and advocating for justice in language education) in applied linguistics, this conceptual article seeks to (re)center social justice in the World Englishes (WE) research agenda by distilling three pedagogical practices t…
Teacher Identity and Language Teaching
This entry outlines concerns surrounding teacher identity. It takes a post‐structural perspective on teacher identity, one that conceives of identity as multiple, context bound, and constructed from language and discourse. Also emphasized in the entry is the significance of taking into consideration the sociocultural factors surrounding language teachers and their agency. Following a quick review of how language teacher identity research has evol…
Translanguaging in practice
This is a critical self-inquiry study that explores how a motherscholar utilized her pedagogical expertise and grappled with structural challenges to support her children’s Cantonese heritage language development. Her strategic use of translanguaging pedagogy not only facilitated her children’s willingness and engagement in speaking Cantonese but also nurtured their transnational identities across the USA and Hong Kong. Despite her pedagogical ba…
Mandarin DLBE district admission policies
Centering critical digital literacy in the lives of language teaching professionals
She is “just an intern”
This paper investigates the emotion labor experienced by transnational world language teachers (TWLTs), with a focus on Chinese language teacher candidates in a US dual immersion school residency program. Despite existing research on emotion labor in language teaching, the experiences of Chinese TWLTs have been underexplored. Through an analysis of mentorship and co-teaching, our findings reveal that much of the emotion labor among our participan…
Adult Educational Cross-Cultural Kids
This is valuable professional development for me’
Decolonizing higher education pedagogy
Building on the long-standing tradition of challenging oppression and questioning whose interests are being served in the field of language education, we report on a study that involved a group of U.S.-based graduate students who collaborated with a ninth-grade English teacher in Nepal. The study comes out of a larger project that sought to internationalize the curriculum of a graduate educational linguistics course at a U.S. university. At the h…
Mandarin DLBE district admission policies
This is valuable professional development for me’
Decolonizing higher education pedagogy
Building on the long-standing tradition of challenging oppression and questioning whose interests are being served in the field of language education, we report on a study that involved a group of U.S.-based graduate students who collaborated with a ninth-grade English teacher in Nepal. The study comes out of a larger project that sought to internationalize the curriculum of a graduate educational linguistics course at a U.S. university. At the h…
Decolonizing higher education pedagogy
Building on the long-standing tradition of challenging oppression and questioning whose interests are being served in the field of language education, we report on a study that involved a group of U.S.-based graduate students who collaborated with a ninth-grade English teacher in Nepal. The study comes out of a larger project that sought to internationalize the curriculum of a graduate educational linguistics course at a U.S. university. At the h…
She is “just an intern”
This paper investigates the emotion labor experienced by transnational world language teachers (TWLTs), with a focus on Chinese language teacher candidates in a US dual immersion school residency program. Despite existing research on emotion labor in language teaching, the experiences of Chinese TWLTs have been underexplored. Through an analysis of mentorship and co-teaching, our findings reveal that much of the emotion labor among our participan…
Adult Educational Cross-Cultural Kids
This is valuable professional development for me’
Teacher Identity and Language Teaching
This entry outlines concerns surrounding teacher identity. It takes a post‐structural perspective on teacher identity, one that conceives of identity as multiple, context bound, and constructed from language and discourse. Also emphasized in the entry is the significance of taking into consideration the sociocultural factors surrounding language teachers and their agency. Following a quick review of how language teacher identity research has evol…
Translanguaging in practice
This is a critical self-inquiry study that explores how a motherscholar utilized her pedagogical expertise and grappled with structural challenges to support her children’s Cantonese heritage language development. Her strategic use of translanguaging pedagogy not only facilitated her children’s willingness and engagement in speaking Cantonese but also nurtured their transnational identities across the USA and Hong Kong. Despite her pedagogical ba…
Mandarin DLBE district admission policies
Centering critical digital literacy in the lives of language teaching professionals
(Re)centering social justice in world Englishes for the English language classroom
Building on three broad pedagogical approaches (raciolinguistics, culturally relevant pedagogy, and translanguaging) and three adjacent pedagogical efforts (valuing languages equally, addressing racialization and postcolonialism, and advocating for justice in language education) in applied linguistics, this conceptual article seeks to (re)center social justice in the World Englishes (WE) research agenda by distilling three pedagogical practices t…
Multilingual Education and Policy (7 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Second Language Learning and Teaching (5 works) · EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning (4 works) · Pedagogy (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Ideology (3 works) · Linguistics (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Teacher education (3 works)