Scholars@Duke
Mengtian Chen

Mengtian Chen

Assistant Professor of Applied Linguistics at Duke Kunshan University
DKU Faculty

Scholarly Works

Out-of-class support for the flipped language classroom: using VoiceThread microlectures to boost active teaching and learning

Journal article System · August 1, 2025 Microlectures have been extensively applied in flipped second language (L2) classrooms, but most of them stand alone as self-study materials with loose connection to classroom activities. Little is known about how teachers guide student learning before and ... Full text Cite

Computer-aided feedback on the pronunciation of Mandarin Chinese tones: using Praat to promote multimedia foreign language learning

Journal article Computer Assisted Language Learning · January 1, 2024 This article discusses whether digital visual and audio feedback in learners’ own voices improves their perception and production of lexical tones in Chinese as a foreign language. Forty-four beginners participated in a four-week training focused on the pr ... Full text Cite

Leveraging affordances in an ecological stance: Reflective language teaching for professional development during COVID-19.

Journal article Heliyon · May 2023 The COVID-19 pandemic has made a prominent impact of social contexts on teachers' professional development in remote classroom teaching. To explore how the change has altered human-environment relationships in university language classes, this qualitative ... Full text Cite

Teaching in emergency remote classrooms: reflections for professional learning

Journal article Educational Research · January 1, 2023 Background: Reflective teaching has long been regarded as playing an important, and potentially empowering, role in teachers’ professional learning. The study reported in this paper considered the longer-term significance of teachers’ self-reflective learn ... Full text Cite

Digital affordances and teacher agency in the context of teaching Chinese as a second language during COVID-19

Journal article System · April 1, 2022 The outbreak of COVID-19 brought about novel digital affordances for second language (L2) teaching by moving all the universities in mainland China abruptly to emergency online schools in early 2020. This unprecedented educational situation prompted teache ... Full text Cite