Guofang Li
Michigan State University, Teacher Education, Department Member
This study was designed to examine the role of early bilingual home literacy experiences (HLE) (including parent–child shared reading, parents’ direct teaching in Chinese and English, the availability of books in both languages, and... more
This study was designed to examine the role of early bilingual home literacy experiences (HLE) (including parent–child shared reading, parents’ direct teaching in Chinese and English, the availability of books in both languages, and children’s access to digital devices for bilingual learning) in the biliteracy development of 66 Chinese–Canadian first graders during the COVID-19 pandemic. Descriptive analyses reveal that overall, parents report higher engagement in English than in Chinese across the four HLE measures. Parent’s engagement in bilingual HLE differs by gender, SES, and immigration status. Pearson correlational analyses of English reading, decoding, and bilingual oral receptive vocabulary reveal that the four dimensions of HLE are not strongly related to English early literacy skills but are positively related to Chinese receptive vocabulary. Finally, hierarchical regression analyses indicate that the availability of books in Chinese and parent–child shared reading in Chi...
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Bilingual children in the North American context significantly improve in English language proficiency, but their heritage language learning varies between different linguistic groups. This mixed methods study was designed to explore the... more
Bilingual children in the North American context significantly improve in English language proficiency, but their heritage language learning varies between different linguistic groups. This mixed methods study was designed to explore the developmental patterns in bilingual vocabulary among Chinese-Canadian first-graders’ (N = 75) and to identify home factors that may have contributed to divergent bilingual developmental trajectories. Cluster analyses were conducted to identify underlying discrepancy profiles in bilingual oral lexicon. Four children with contrasting bilingual profiles were selected for qualitative analysis to explore home factors that may have contributed to the discrepancies. Thematic analyses of parental interviews revealed several family factors such as beliefs and attitudes toward bilingualism, quality literacy engagement, and sibling dynamics, that all appearing to contribute to the discrepancies.
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Drawing on research about young children’s literacy development, this review article discusses a recent paradigmatic turn for understanding the child and childhood from human-centerism to posthumanism. Building on the new materialist... more
Drawing on research about young children’s literacy development, this review article discusses a recent paradigmatic turn for understanding the child and childhood from human-centerism to posthumanism. Building on the new materialist tradition (e.g., Barad, 2007) and the assemblage theory of Deleuze and Guattari (1987, 1997), the posthuman lens enables researchers and educators to see children as parts of entangled networks of relationships who continuously intra-act with their peers, teachers, materials, and the other nonhuman entities and activities produced constantly by the child-material entanglements. As such, the posthumanist perspective expands the current research on early literacy by offering new possibilities for re-conceptualizing the child, the materials or resources for early literacy, and the meaning of childhood and children’s play. These new ways of seeing the child, the materials, and childhood have also generated new pedagogical practices that are material-oriente...
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Based on a conversational analysis (CA) of eight videoed EFL lessons from technology-enhanced primary classrooms in a rural suburb of a major city in China, this study examines the nature of technology-assisted practices and their... more
Based on a conversational analysis (CA) of eight videoed EFL lessons from technology-enhanced primary classrooms in a rural suburb of a major city in China, this study examines the nature of technology-assisted practices and their influence on teacher-student interaction in the target language. The analysis revealed that the technology-assisted practices mainly served as an alternative presentation tool to meet a range of traditional pedagogical goals and facilitated minimal spontaneous language use among the students. The findings call for research to explore better pedagogical use of technology to promote students’ active language production to truly achieve educational equalization for rural students.
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This chapter investigates how Chinese immigrant families wrestled with a dual-transition from in-person instruction to a virtual environment in both mainstream and heritage language education and how they supported home... more
This chapter investigates how Chinese immigrant families wrestled with a dual-transition from in-person instruction to a virtual environment in both mainstream and heritage language education and how they supported home bi/multi-literacies in English and Chinese heritage language including Mandarin, Cantonese, or other Chinese dialects during the transition. Thematic analyses of 178 parent interviews show that Chinese-immigrant parents have experienced significant changes in their roles and ways in nurturing home early biliteracy development to respond to the schooling transitions from offline to online. Results revealed that the sudden implementation of virtual learning during the COVID-19 school closure has been problematic and challenging for most Chinese-immigrant parents and children.
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... Dr. Glenn Eastabrook, the first professor in Canada to teach me how to articulate critical issues like the ones ... Li Gulbahar H. Beckett PART ONE: ASIAN FEMALE SCHOLARS IN CONTEXT 1 ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN WOMEN AND MEN IN HIGHER... more
... Dr. Glenn Eastabrook, the first professor in Canada to teach me how to articulate critical issues like the ones ... Li Gulbahar H. Beckett PART ONE: ASIAN FEMALE SCHOLARS IN CONTEXT 1 ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN WOMEN AND MEN IN HIGHER EDUCATION 15 The ...
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ABSTRACT Task-based language teaching (TBLT) has been drawing researchers' and practitioners' attention since its onset in the 1980s. The rich and still expanding literature on TBLT is helping to mature both its... more
ABSTRACT Task-based language teaching (TBLT) has been drawing researchers' and practitioners' attention since its onset in the 1980s. The rich and still expanding literature on TBLT is helping to mature both its theoretical conceptualization and practical implementation in foreign and second language education. Technology has played and will continue to play an important role in this maturation process. This review focuses on the intersection of technology and TBLT, examines the mutual contributions of technology and TBLT to each other, and discusses the challenges in implementing and researching TBLT in technology-mediated environments. In addition, this review outlines a set of crucial issues to which attention must be paid to further develop technology-enhanced TBLT.
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© 2010 The Guilford Press A Division of Guilford Publications, Inc. 72 Spring Street, New York, NY 10012 www.guilford.com All rights reserved No part of this book may be reproduced, translated, stored in a retrieval system, or... more
© 2010 The Guilford Press A Division of Guilford Publications, Inc. 72 Spring Street, New York, NY 10012 www.guilford.com All rights reserved No part of this book may be reproduced, translated, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any ...
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ABSTRACT Task-based language teaching (TBLT) has been drawing researchers' and practitioners' attention since its onset in the 1980s. The rich and still expanding literature on TBLT is helping to mature both its... more
ABSTRACT Task-based language teaching (TBLT) has been drawing researchers' and practitioners' attention since its onset in the 1980s. The rich and still expanding literature on TBLT is helping to mature both its theoretical conceptualization and practical implementation in foreign and second language education. Technology has played and will continue to play an important role in this maturation process. This review focuses on the intersection of technology and TBLT, examines the mutual contributions of technology and TBLT to each other, and discusses the challenges in implementing and researching TBLT in technology-mediated environments. In addition, this review outlines a set of crucial issues to which attention must be paid to further develop technology-enhanced TBLT.
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It is widely accepted that the addition of redox mediators increases the decolorization rates of azo dyes by bacterial strains under anaerobic conditions. However, little information exists about whether quinoid redox mediators can... more
It is widely accepted that the addition of redox mediators increases the decolorization rates of azo dyes by bacterial strains under anaerobic conditions. However, little information exists about whether quinoid redox mediators can enhance the performance of aerobic azo dye decolorization. In the present study, quinone-mediated decolorization of different azo dyes by whole cells and cell extracts from the Escherichia coli strain CD-2 under aerobic conditions were investigated. The results demonstrated that reduction rates of different azo dyes were greatly increased when quinone compounds were used as redox mediators. Compared with menadione, 2-hydroxy-1,4-naphthoquinone (lawsone) was more effective at aiding azo dye degradation and the optimum concentration for lawsone is 0.1 mM. Strain CD-2 and the anthraquinone were co-immobilized by entrapment in different polymeric matrices. The co-immobilized beads exhibited good catalytic activity for azo dye degradation and kept stable durin...
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... Page 5. First published 2008 by Routledge 270 Madison Ave, New York, NY 10016 Simultaneously published in the UK by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN This edition published in the Taylor &... more
... Page 5. First published 2008 by Routledge 270 Madison Ave, New York, NY 10016 Simultaneously published in the UK by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2007. ...
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... gradually were moved to online chats in different chatrooms that they discovered, eg, in MSN or Yahoo ... if it's a good book) I can ever close the book!...Reading makes me speak English more ... The Production of Margin and... more
... gradually were moved to online chats in different chatrooms that they discovered, eg, in MSN or Yahoo ... if it's a good book) I can ever close the book!...Reading makes me speak English more ... The Production of Margin and Center: Welcoming-Unwelcoming of Immigrant Students. ...
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Thirteen pure strains that possessed high methyl red (MR)-decolorizing ability were isolated from dye-contaminated water. Each isolate was identified by 16S rDNA sequencing. The results reveal that all of the isolated strains were... more
Thirteen pure strains that possessed high methyl red (MR)-decolorizing ability were isolated from dye-contaminated water. Each isolate was identified by 16S rDNA sequencing. The results reveal that all of the isolated strains were facultative anaerobic bacteria. Two novel bacterial consortia (AE and AN), which could decolorize MR under aerobic and anaerobic conditions, respectively, were developed. Azo dye decolorization rate was significantly higher with the use of consortia compared to that with the use of individual strains. Both of the consortia can decolorize different azo dyes effectively in a short time, and tolerate MR with high concentrations. To provide further insight into the microbial diversity of the bacteria consortia under aerobic and anaerobic conditions, polymerase chain reaction-denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis (PCR-DGGE) analyses were performed. PCR-DGGE profiles revealed that the microbial community had changed significantly with varying initial concentrations of MR. Phylogenetic analysis indicated that microbial populations in the aerobic compartment belong to Klebsiella, Buttiauxella and Bacillus, whereas Klebsiella, Escherichia, Bacillus and Clostridium were present in the anaerobic compartment. Klebsiella, which was the majority genus in both of the consortia, may play an important role in azo dye removal.
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... These dara were used to understand the relationship between home literacy practices and each child's development of school-valued ... reading appropriate level materials is important for a child's reading skill and strategy... more
... These dara were used to understand the relationship between home literacy practices and each child's development of school-valued ... reading appropriate level materials is important for a child's reading skill and strategy development (Allington, 1984; Juel, 1994; Swanson & ...
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... Sue told me her expectations for Amy: "I hope she will go to university someday, just like you." ... literary texts, is crucial for their early literacy development since the accessibility of print has a... more
... Sue told me her expectations for Amy: "I hope she will go to university someday, just like you." ... literary texts, is crucial for their early literacy development since the accessibility of print has a marked effect on children's attitude to reading (Kuby, Goodstadt-Killoran, Aldridge, & ...
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... Guofang Li State University of New York at Buffalo ... The increased racial profiling against Asian students in higher education, for example, is reported to have resulted in adverse learning ... At the time of the study,... more
... Guofang Li State University of New York at Buffalo ... The increased racial profiling against Asian students in higher education, for example, is reported to have resulted in adverse learning ... At the time of the study, Andy's mother had quit her job in order to spend more time to help ...