Power dynamics in translingual practices for Chinese as a Second Language writing education

Yachao Sun is an Assistant Professor at the Language and Culture Center of Duke Kunshan University. His research centers on multilingual writing, translingual studies, multimodal composition, and technology-empowered education. His work has been published in journals such as the Journal of Second Language Writing, Language Teaching, TESOL Quarterly, Language Teaching Research, Journal of English for Academic Purposes, English for Specific Purposes, Assessing Writing, and System, among others. His recent research examines how applied linguistics and writing theories can address the challenges of increasingly diverse teaching and learning contexts amid rapid technological advancement, thereby informing contemporary language practices and pedagogies. He is particularly interested in exploring multilingual writers’ language practices and ideologies through both translingual and generative AI perspectives, with one of his current projects investigating the impact of generative AI on translingual writing practices.

He has a joint master's degree in TESOL and Linguistics from Ball State University, Indiana and a Ph.D. in Second Language Studies from Purdue University, Indiana. Before joining Duke Kunshan University, he had been teaching introductory composition courses at Ball State University and Purdue University.