Ming-Hsuan Wu
Biographic Data
| ID | 5185932 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ming-Hsuan Wu |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ming-Hsuan |
| FAMILY NAME | Wu |
| SIGNATURE | WU M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Adelphi University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2315-2192 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The impact of brand identification, brand image, and brand love on brand loyalty
Amid intensifying competition from both traditional hotels and alternative lodging platforms such as Airbnb, building emotional customer–brand connections has become vital in the hospitality industry. This study investigates how hotel brand identity and brand image influence brand love and, subsequently, brand loyalty, with customer value cocreation behaviors as mediating factors. Drawing on social identity theory and social behavior theory, the …
Life and work between home and “homeland”
Unlike Korean or Vietnamese adoptees who came to the U.S. during the postwar era, Chinese adoptees are mostly abandoned female infants under China’s one-child policy from 1980 through 2015. Little work has documented Chinese adoptees’ identity (trans)formation across time and space. This study examines how three Chinese adoptees from the U.S. who chose to go to Taiwan to teach English make sense of their Chinese heritages and their lives in and o…
‘What if I was not adopted’
While race in TESOL has gained traction in recent years, less research has focused on Asian American teachers working in Asian contexts, not to mention Chinese adoptees from the US working as English teachers in Asia. Drawing from our larger study on the work narratives of Asian Americans teaching English in Taiwan, this paper examines how Chinese adoptees negotiate their linguistic and cultural competencies and identities in Taiwan. We uncover t…
Living in two worlds
Increasingly, immigrant families in North America are sending their newborns to the parents’ country of origin to be raised by relatives until the children reach school age. Then they are returned to their parents. This practice results from lack of childcare in the host countries, low wages among immigrant parents, and/or intergenerational childcare as a norm back home. Researchers and media have started to delve into the challenges faced by fam…
‘It’s not my Chinese’
Translanguaging theory re-conceptualizes the linguistic systems and practices of multilinguals as well as multilingual classroom pedagogies. While many studies have documented translanguaging in bilingual classrooms, there is little discussion about how translanguaging can advance the field of heritage language education. This paper shares findings from a qualitative investigation of a Mandarin heritage program in the U.S. enrolling ethnic Chines…
A Critical Examination of Asian Students’ Interracial and Interethnic Friendships at a Multiracial Urban School
This study examines Asian students’ interracial/interethnic friendships at a multiracial middle school. Friendship groups remain predominantly segregated despite the school’s efforts, reflecting community and parental influences. The circulation of uncontested stereotypes such as “loud” and “brash” African Americans is based on normative ideas of communicative styles, making some Asian students hesitant to be friends with their African American p…
A Different Story to Share”
In a broader context where English is marketed as a desirable product of consumption, hiring English speakers as language teachers and de facto cultural ambassadors is a common practice in some East Asian countries. This paper investigates how 20 self-identified Asian American teachers in Taiwan teaching English in local schools wrestle with the positionality of their racialized selves and idealized “nativeness.” Using an informal interview appro…
Re-envisioning Heritage Language Education
This article takes a language ecology perspective on the interdependence of multiple Chinese languages in the heritage communities and classrooms of middle-school students. We describe how these students struggle with Mandarin as an imposed identity and consider productive classroom exercises of linguistic rescaling that help them to critically examine the diversity of Chinese languages. This study addresses the dearth of critical examination of …
Innovative Education for Diverse Students in a Changing Era
Normal 0 false false false EN-US KO X-NONE This critical ethnographic case study describes and interprets how an urban K-8 charter school in the United States with a large number of students of color from low-income communities offers education that recognizes students’ minority status in the broader society and envisions students as agents working toward a just society. The analyses show that the school’s progressive teaching of diversity has a …
Linguistic landscape and heritage language literacy education
This paper investigates the ways languages are used in Philadelphia Chinatown through qualitative content analysis of 330 photos. Examining the linguistic landscape of public spaces exposes issues of linguistic tensions, language vitality, and language shift in multilingual settings. While Chinese in the form of Mandarin is highly publicized, thereby placing disproportionate emphasis upon one language over others, Philadelphia Chinatown shows div…
Language planning and policy in Taiwan
This overview and analysis of language policy and planning (LPP) in Taiwan since the seventeenth century is written from the perspective of language ecology and uses Cooper’s three-part approach: status planning, acquisition planning and corpus planning. The paper investigates how languages and their speakers have interacted with one another and with their sociocultural and political contexts, and how different policies at different times have al…
Language planning and policy in Taiwan
This overview and analysis of language policy and planning (LPP) in Taiwan since the seventeenth century is written from the perspective of language ecology and uses Cooper’s three-part approach: status planning, acquisition planning and corpus planning. The paper investigates how languages and their speakers have interacted with one another and with their sociocultural and political contexts, and how different policies at different times have al…
A Different Story to Share”
In a broader context where English is marketed as a desirable product of consumption, hiring English speakers as language teachers and de facto cultural ambassadors is a common practice in some East Asian countries. This paper investigates how 20 self-identified Asian American teachers in Taiwan teaching English in local schools wrestle with the positionality of their racialized selves and idealized “nativeness.” Using an informal interview appro…
A Critical Examination of Asian Students’ Interracial and Interethnic Friendships at a Multiracial Urban School
This study examines Asian students’ interracial/interethnic friendships at a multiracial middle school. Friendship groups remain predominantly segregated despite the school’s efforts, reflecting community and parental influences. The circulation of uncontested stereotypes such as “loud” and “brash” African Americans is based on normative ideas of communicative styles, making some Asian students hesitant to be friends with their African American p…
Innovative Education for Diverse Students in a Changing Era
Normal 0 false false false EN-US KO X-NONE This critical ethnographic case study describes and interprets how an urban K-8 charter school in the United States with a large number of students of color from low-income communities offers education that recognizes students’ minority status in the broader society and envisions students as agents working toward a just society. The analyses show that the school’s progressive teaching of diversity has a …
Language planning and policy in Taiwan
This overview and analysis of language policy and planning (LPP) in Taiwan since the seventeenth century is written from the perspective of language ecology and uses Cooper’s three-part approach: status planning, acquisition planning and corpus planning. The paper investigates how languages and their speakers have interacted with one another and with their sociocultural and political contexts, and how different policies at different times have al…
Linguistic landscape and heritage language literacy education
This paper investigates the ways languages are used in Philadelphia Chinatown through qualitative content analysis of 330 photos. Examining the linguistic landscape of public spaces exposes issues of linguistic tensions, language vitality, and language shift in multilingual settings. While Chinese in the form of Mandarin is highly publicized, thereby placing disproportionate emphasis upon one language over others, Philadelphia Chinatown shows div…
Re-envisioning Heritage Language Education
This article takes a language ecology perspective on the interdependence of multiple Chinese languages in the heritage communities and classrooms of middle-school students. We describe how these students struggle with Mandarin as an imposed identity and consider productive classroom exercises of linguistic rescaling that help them to critically examine the diversity of Chinese languages. This study addresses the dearth of critical examination of …
Innovative Education for Diverse Students in a Changing Era
Normal 0 false false false EN-US KO X-NONE This critical ethnographic case study describes and interprets how an urban K-8 charter school in the United States with a large number of students of color from low-income communities offers education that recognizes students’ minority status in the broader society and envisions students as agents working toward a just society. The analyses show that the school’s progressive teaching of diversity has a …
A Different Story to Share”
In a broader context where English is marketed as a desirable product of consumption, hiring English speakers as language teachers and de facto cultural ambassadors is a common practice in some East Asian countries. This paper investigates how 20 self-identified Asian American teachers in Taiwan teaching English in local schools wrestle with the positionality of their racialized selves and idealized “nativeness.” Using an informal interview appro…
A Critical Examination of Asian Students’ Interracial and Interethnic Friendships at a Multiracial Urban School
This study examines Asian students’ interracial/interethnic friendships at a multiracial middle school. Friendship groups remain predominantly segregated despite the school’s efforts, reflecting community and parental influences. The circulation of uncontested stereotypes such as “loud” and “brash” African Americans is based on normative ideas of communicative styles, making some Asian students hesitant to be friends with their African American p…
Living in two worlds
Increasingly, immigrant families in North America are sending their newborns to the parents’ country of origin to be raised by relatives until the children reach school age. Then they are returned to their parents. This practice results from lack of childcare in the host countries, low wages among immigrant parents, and/or intergenerational childcare as a norm back home. Researchers and media have started to delve into the challenges faced by fam…
‘It’s not my Chinese’
Translanguaging theory re-conceptualizes the linguistic systems and practices of multilinguals as well as multilingual classroom pedagogies. While many studies have documented translanguaging in bilingual classrooms, there is little discussion about how translanguaging can advance the field of heritage language education. This paper shares findings from a qualitative investigation of a Mandarin heritage program in the U.S. enrolling ethnic Chines…
‘What if I was not adopted’
While race in TESOL has gained traction in recent years, less research has focused on Asian American teachers working in Asian contexts, not to mention Chinese adoptees from the US working as English teachers in Asia. Drawing from our larger study on the work narratives of Asian Americans teaching English in Taiwan, this paper examines how Chinese adoptees negotiate their linguistic and cultural competencies and identities in Taiwan. We uncover t…
Life and work between home and “homeland”
Unlike Korean or Vietnamese adoptees who came to the U.S. during the postwar era, Chinese adoptees are mostly abandoned female infants under China’s one-child policy from 1980 through 2015. Little work has documented Chinese adoptees’ identity (trans)formation across time and space. This study examines how three Chinese adoptees from the U.S. who chose to go to Taiwan to teach English make sense of their Chinese heritages and their lives in and o…
The impact of brand identification, brand image, and brand love on brand loyalty
Amid intensifying competition from both traditional hotels and alternative lodging platforms such as Airbnb, building emotional customer–brand connections has become vital in the hospitality industry. This study investigates how hotel brand identity and brand image influence brand love and, subsequently, brand loyalty, with customer value cocreation behaviors as mediating factors. Drawing on social identity theory and social behavior theory, the …
Multilingual Education and Policy (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Linguistics (6 works) · Anthropology (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · History (4 works) · Pedagogy (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Second Language Learning and Teaching (4 works)