Pengchong Anthony Zhang
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Lecturer in Education (Second Language Learning)
- IoE Deputy Chair of Ethics
- IoE Research Committee ECR Representative
- Statistics Community of Practice (SCoP) IoE Representative
Areas of interest
Second/foreign language learning and teaching, including:
- Foreign/second language vocabulary development
- Listening comprehension in a foreign/second language
- Multimedia enhanced foreign/second language learning
- Classroom based language learning and teaching
- Advanced quantitative methods in foreign/second language research
Postgraduate supervision
Masters, PhD and EdD Level Supervision offered:
- Classroom-based learning and second/foreign language pedagogy
- Multimedia enhanced second/foreign language learning
- The development of vocabulary knowledge
- The role of individual learner differences in language learning
- Advanced quantitative methods in second/foreign language research
Current and Recent PhD and EdD Students, with Topics/Titles of their Research:
Current (as first supervisor)
- Ye, Jiarun:Digital vocabulary learning: The role of self-regulation and learning approaches (Second supervisor: Dr Rowena Kasprowicz)
Current (as second supervisor):
- Areen Badri: Teaching Vocabulary through Listening: An experimental study with Saudi Visually Impaired EFL learners (First supervisor: Professor Suzanne Graham)
- Nick Davies: Examining the effects of mathematics workshops on pre-service teachers’ mathematics anxiety (First supervisor: Professor Elizabeth McCrum)
- Gail Hickman: An exploration of the impact of a self-regulatory strategy intervention and a morphology awareness instruction on English vocabulary acquisition and motivation of English second language learners (First supervisor: Professor Suzanne Graham)
- Lara Wilkinson: Accountability, values and school leadership: bridging accountability obligation and professional values (First supervisor: Dr Karen Jones)
- Yang, Huining: The development of learners’ listening comprehension, self-efficacy, and anxiety within an informal digital learning of English listening (IDLEL) context: Examining the role of frequency, diversity of use, and self-regulation (First supervisor: Professor Suzanne Graham)
Completed
- James Bury: Developing and enhancing communicative competence among foreign language learners in Japan (First supervisor: Professor Suzanne Graham)
Teaching
- EDM096 Academic English and Study Skills (MA in English Language Education)
- EDM167 Second Language Teaching and Learning (MA in Education)
- EDM201 Analysing Research Data in Education (MA in Education)
Research centres and groups
- Centre for Literacy and Multilingualism
- Language and Literacy in Education research group
Research projects
DELTEA is a large ESRC funded multistrand research project investigating foreign language (FL) learning and teaching in UK primary schools. We are a multidisciplinary group of academics based at the Universities of Southampton and Reading conducting three phases of research: 1) a programme of free, online teacher education, 2) an intervention in schools using both a FL phonics app and digital stories, and 3) a Massive Online Open Course (MOOC) to scale up the professional development to include a wider pool of teachers and contexts.
Selected publications
Conference Presentations:
- August 2023. Vocabulary learning through multimedia: The role of attention allocation and individual differences. Paper presented at BAAL 2023, University of York
- August 2021 (with S. Graham, L. Fisher, & J. Hofweber). Linguistic creativity in language learning: The role of text type and teaching approach. Paper presented at International Association of Applied Linguistics (AILA) 2020 World Congress, Groningen, the Netherlands.
- June 2019 (with S. Graham). Learning vocabulary through listening: The role of linguistic proficiency and strategy use. Paper presented at 15th BAAL Language Learning and Teaching SIG Conference, University of Bath.
- August 2017 Comparing different types of intentional EFL vocabulary instruction for Chinese high-school learners of English. Paper presented at EuroSLA 27, University of Reading.
- July 2017 Comparing different types of intentional EFL vocabulary acquisition for Chinese high-school learners of English. BAAL Vocabulary SIG Annual Conference 2017