Zhongfeng Tian

List of John Benjamins publications in which Zhongfeng Tian is involved.

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Positive synergies: Translanguaging and critical theories in education

Edited by Zhongfeng Tian and Holly Link

Special issue of Translation and Translanguaging in Multilingual Contexts 5:1 (2019) v, 93 pp.

Christiansen, M. Sidury and Zhongfeng Tian 2025 Chapter 12. Critical collaborative autoethnography Innovative Qualitative Methodologies in Multilingual Literacy Development Research: Amplifying voices from immigrant, transnational, and refugee communities, Kibler, Amanda K. and Fares J. Karam (eds.), pp. 232–252 | Chapter

This chapter explores the transformative potential that applying critical collaborative autoethnography can have in the path towards decolonizing academic writing, a particular type of literacy practice. Traditional research methodologies, both quantitative and qualitative, are critiqued for… read more

Lau, Sunny Man Chu and Zhongfeng Tian 2020 Ko-Yin Sung and Hsiao-Mei Tsai. (2019). Mandarin Chinese Dual Language Immersion Programs Journal of Immersion and Content-Based Language Education 8:1, pp. 137–140 | Review

Khote, Nihal and Zhongfeng Tian 2019 Translanguaging in culturally sustaining systemic functional linguistics: Developing a heteroglossic space with multilingual learners Positive synergies: Translanguaging and critical theories in education, Tian, Zhongfeng and Holly Link (eds.), pp. 5–28 | Article

In today’s globalized multilingual classrooms, deficit ideologies tend to disregard the cultural capital and mobile semiotic resources that immigrant and culturally diverse students bring with them (Blommaert 2010). There is a growing need to focus on culturally sustaining pedagogies that… read more

Tian, Zhongfeng and Holly Link 2019 Editorial Positive synergies: Translanguaging and critical theories in education, Tian, Zhongfeng and Holly Link (eds.), pp. 1–4 | Editorial