Kevin Wong is a tenure-track Assistant Professor and Chair of the MA in TESOL program at Pepperdine University in the Graduate School of Education and Psychology. He received his Ph.D. in Teaching and Learning at New York University, specializing in literacy and multilingual education. His research and teaching are devoted to working with teachers to provide multilingual students with linguistically and culturally sustaining, equitable, and humanizing learning environments.

Kevin has always been interested in languages as he was raised trilingual (English, Cantonese, and Mandarin) in a biracial and multicultural home in Hong Kong. As a former elementary school teacher and a current scholar-practitioner, Kevin is currently involved in research projects that collectively investigate language learning in ESL/EFL and dual language immersion contexts. These include collaborations on translanguaging in Chinese-English dual language bilingual education, multiracial children’s literature, and early bilingual word learning through educational media. His dissertation, “The Potential of Educational Media to Support Dual Language Learners’ L1 and L2 Vocabulary Development” earned the 2020 Paul R. Pintrich Dissertation Award from the American Psychological Association, and the 2022 Outstanding Dissertation Award from the American Educational Research Association Early Education and Child Development SIG.

Curriculum Vitae (March 2024)

黃浩文博士是佩珀代因大學教育和心理學研究生院準聘-長聘制的助理教授和TESOL碩士項目的主席。他在紐約大學獲得哲學博士學位，專攻識字和多語言教育。他的研究和教學致力於與教師合作，為多語言學生提供語言和文化上持續、公平和人性化的學習環境。

黃浩文博士在香港的一個多元文化家庭中長大（父母來自不同種族），精通英語、粵語和普通話，因此他從小就對語言產生了濃厚的興趣。作為一名從事過小學教育的學術實踐者，黃浩文博士目前參與了許多共同研究學前班至12年級語言學習的合作項目。比如，漢英雙語教育中的語碼轉換，多族裔兒童文學，以及教育媒體影響下的早期雙語詞彙學習。他的博士畢業論文《教育媒體支持雙語言學習者第一和第二語言詞彙發展的潛力》榮獲美國心理學會於2020年頒發的Paul R. Pintrich論文獎，以及美國教育研究協會早期教育和兒童發展特別興趣小組於2022年頒發的優秀論文獎。

Recent Articles (click image)

Humanizing Online Language Teaching Through Instructional and Affective Moves: Reflections from an ELD Teacher

Published in CATESOL Journal (2023)

Decolonizing research findings in multilingual education: using multilingual (re)sources to develop a database for international research

Published in International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism (2023)

Literacy Landscapes Podcast, Episode 16

In this episode, Dr. Kevin Wong discusses the power of children’s literature to foster discussion around multiracial identity. (2023)

Chinese-English dual language bilingual education in the United States 美国中英双语沉浸式教学

Published in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development (2022)

Can small changes matter? Reducing cognitive load in educational media supports low-income preschoolers’ vocabulary learning

Published in Journal of Educational Psychology (2022)

Blending asynchronous and synchronous digital technologies and instructional approaches to facilitate remote learning

Published in Journal of Computers in Education (2022)

Learning L2 vocabulary on screen: The role of screen-based pedagogical supports for young dual language learners

Published in Computer Assisted Language Learning (2022)

L2 vocabulary learning from educational media: The influence of screen‐based scaffolds on the incidental–intentional continuum

Published in TESOL Journal (2021)

Digital competence and online language teaching: Hong Kong language teacher practices in primary and secondary classrooms

Published in System (2021)

The Kids' Table Podcast, Episode 4

In episode four we are joined by PhDad extraordinaire, Dr. Kevin Wong, who teaches us all about the three m's: multilingualism, multiracialism, and multiculturalism. We celebrate Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage month with a discussion of representation, children's literature, critical consciousness, and what it means to us to be multiracial today.

Education

Steinhardt School of Culture, Education & Human Development, New York University
Ph.D., Teaching and Learning

Teachers College, Columbia University
Ed.M., International and Comparative Education

The Chinese University of Hong Kong
M.A., English Language Teaching

Duke University
B.A., Psychology; Education minor