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Zhenjie Weng

Assistant Professor in English Language at Duke Kunshan University
DKU Faculty

Selected Publications


Examining AI Use in Educational Contexts: A Scoping Meta-Review and Bibliometric Analysis

Journal Article International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education · September 1, 2025 With growing research attention in artificial intelligence in education (AIED), there is a profusion of systematic reviews that have investigated AI integration in a wide variety of educational contexts, including PreK-12 schools and higher education. Even ... Full text Cite

Investigating routine and adaptive expertise of experienced teachers in English for academic purposes writing

Journal Article Journal of English for Academic Purposes · September 1, 2025 This classroom-based case study explores how experienced English for Academic Purposes (EAP) writing teachers apply their routine and adaptive expertise in an EAP composition program. Particularly, the study involves two experienced EAP writing teachers an ... Full text Cite

A Language Teacher Educator's Identity and Agency Development via Virtual Professional Training: An Autoethnography

Journal Article Tesol Journal · June 1, 2025 This study aimed to explore the developmental journey of an emergent language teacher educator (LTE) as she navigated the construction of her identity and enactment of her agency in the context of virtual teacher training sessions. Through personal reflect ... Full text Cite

TEACHER IDENTITY AGENCY IN LANGUAGE TEACHING: IMPLICATIONS FOR LANGUAGE TEACHER EDUCATION

Journal Article Llt Journal Journal on Language and Language Teaching · April 1, 2025 While there have been separate investigations into language teacher identity and agency, a conspicuous gap existed in the literature as no systematic synthesis had been conducted to unravel the interconnected relationship between these two crucial concepts ... Full text Cite

“I felt like I was being judged…”: A duoethnography exploring international language teacher educator identities

Journal Article Tesol Journal · March 1, 2025 Given the need to explore the nature of language teacher educator (LTE) identities, this duoethnography centers the identity journeys of three language teacher educators—Lu, Yuseva, and Zhenjie—as they evolved together and in dialogue with their advisor, F ... Full text Cite

Chinese TESOL Teacher Educators’ Perceptions of Factors Influencing Teacher Agency

Journal Article International Journal of Applied Linguistics United Kingdom · January 1, 2025 This study explores the perceptions of 34 Chinese TESOL teacher educators regarding factors influencing teacher agency, adopting an ecological perspective that frames agency as dynamic and context-bound—shaped by interactions across iterational, practical- ... Full text Cite

Navigating the ethical terrain of AI in education: A systematic review on framing responsible human-centered AI practices

Journal Article Computers and Education Artificial Intelligence · December 1, 2024 With the rapid development of artificial intelligence (AI) in recent years, there has been an increasing number of studies on integrating AI in various educational contexts, ranging from early childhood to higher education. Although systematic reviews have ... Full text Cite

Teaching an EAP writing class online: A case study of an emerging expert from “identity” and “agency” perspectives

Journal Article System · August 1, 2024 Scholars have called for efforts to produce a corpus of expertise-related studies on second language (L2) writing teachers. In response to this growing area of research, this study investigates the journey of a transnational L2 writing instructor as she de ... Full text Cite

Examining Language Teacher Identity and Intersectionality Across Instructional Contexts Through the Experience of Perezhivanie

Journal Article Tesol Quarterly · June 1, 2024 This article reports on an ethnographic case study of the professional identity development of Mark—an English language teacher who identified as cisgender, gay, Catholic, white, and not wealthy. Using the lenses of intersectionality (e.g., Crenshaw, 1989, ... Full text Cite

Affordances and constraints: using collaborative autoethnography as a methodology to examine language teacher agency

Journal Article International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education · January 1, 2024 Language teacher agency (LTA) remains understudied in ESL, EFL, and bilingual contexts. Less is known about affordances and constraints of diverse methodologies that are used to explore this concept. This study, therefore, aims to examine how collaborative ... Full text Cite

Collaborative autoethnography in examining online teaching during the pandemic: from a ‘teacher agency’ perspective

Journal Article Teaching in Higher Education · January 1, 2024 The COVID-19 pandemic outbreak forced universities to immediately shift to online teaching, and the transition presented unprecedented challenges. This paper reports our findings from a collaborative autoethnography study with a special focus on the challe ... Full text Cite

Implementing rubric co-construction in ESL writing teaching

Journal Article Elt Journal · January 1, 2024 Rubrics are often used as scoring tools in evaluating student writing performance. Although there is a considerable amount of research on the use of rubrics in ESL writing instruction, little attention has been paid to studies of engaging students in rubri ... Full text Open Access Cite

A Study of Expertise in Instructional Delivery While Teaching Argumentative Writing in an American ESL Composition Program

Chapter · January 1, 2024 Within the field of L2 writing, a growing emphasis has been placed on the need to investigate L2 writing teacher expertise and instructional practices. While some previous studies have identified characteristics of expert L2 writing teachers, there remains ... Full text Cite

Toward humanizing SFL praxis: Coconstructing language teachers' understandings of their intersectional identities via language use

Journal Article Foreign Language Annals · December 1, 2023 Contextualized within our Projects in Humanization in language teacher education and part of our on-going collaborative self-study of our language teacher educator practices, we used multiple case study to examine multimodal representations of cultural and ... Full text Cite

Developing language teacher identity through photo-elicitation in TESOL teacher education

Journal Article Tesol Journal · September 1, 2023 This feature article introduces the use of photo elicitation as a reflection technique for TESOL teacher education to explore the connection between emotions and language teacher identity (LTI). In current TESOL teacher education, there is limited knowledg ... Full text Cite

Examining ESL and bilingual teachers’ agency after NCLB: expanding the ecological perspective

Journal Article International Multilingual Research Journal · January 1, 2023 There is growing recognition about the importance of studying teacher agency in working with Linguistically Diverse Students (LDSs) after No Child Left Behind (NCLB) and Every Student Succeed Act (ESSA) given that the high-stakes testing and accountability ... Full text Cite

Identity position and pedagogical agency negotiation in teaching EAP writing: A case study

Journal Article Language Teaching Research · January 1, 2023 In language education, little classroom-based research has been conducted regarding novice teachers of English for academic purposes (EAP), and even less on teaching EAP at graduate level and on graduate teaching assistants (GTAs), a significant but overlo ... Full text Cite

The Influence of Technology in Educating English Language Learners at-risk or with Disabilities: A Systematic Review

Journal Article Center for Educational Policy Studies Journal · December 28, 2022 With the development of technology, the quantity and quality of electronic devices for students learning English as a second or foreign language (ESL/EFL) are on the rise, especially since the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic. To facilitate practices in E ... Full text Cite

A Systematic Review on Pedagogical Translanguaging in TESOL

Journal Article Tesl Ej · November 1, 2022 This systematic review analyzes 20 empirical articles on translanguaging (TL) pedagogies in ESL and EFL contexts. The review is guided by the following questions: (1) How is TL implemented across different teaching contexts? (2) What are the identified ben ... Full text Cite

Developing teaching expertise through transnational experience: Implications for TESOL teacher education

Chapter · April 13, 2021 This study, responding to the increasing number of teachers traveling between EFL and ESL contexts in the global world, investigated one American teacher's experiences in teaching Chinese learners of English across geographical contexts (China and the U.S. ... Full text Cite

English language teacher agency in classroom-based empirical studies: A research synthesis

Journal Article Tesol International Journal · January 1, 2019 This research synthesis analyzes a selection of classroom-based empirical studies on language teacher agency within ESL/EFL/bilingual contexts. Comprehensive analyses of the selected research center on several respects: theoretical frameworks, contexts, me ... Cite

Voices from international Chinese students on varieties of English: A mixed methods study

Journal Article Asian Efl Journal · June 1, 2018 The current study explored the experiences with and attitudes toward various English varieties among international Chinese students, matriculated in either undergraduate or graduate levels in a western Pennsylvanian university. In the era of globalization, ... Cite

Factors influencing Chinese international students’ strategic language learning at ten universities in the U.S.: A mixed-method study

Journal Article Journal of International Students · January 1, 2018 This QUAL-QUAN mixed-method study employed a sociocultural interpretive framework to describe the Language Learning Strategies used by Chinese international students at ten universities in the U.S. During phase one, we used typological and interpretive ana ... Full text Cite