Rong ZHANG
Research title: Multilingual learners' Literary Encounter with Audio books
Research Summary
My project explores how multilingual university students construct and negotiate their plurilingual and pluricultural identities through creative encounters with audio texts, drawing on theories and perspectives such as:
- Reader response theory
- Text World Theory
- Post-structuralist views on language and identity
Additionally, I am particularly in interested in art-based methods to explore the multilingual selves of university students.
Supervisors
Grants
Scottish Graduate School of Social Sciences Student-led training fund award 2025. Let the Imagination Run Wild: Arts-informed inquiry in Community Contexts (with Sih Ying Hsieh) £800 Date(s) of Event: 01/07/2025 and 30/08/2025
Conferences
Zhang, R. (2025) A case study of linguistic practices of a Chinese-English bilingual young reader. Presented as part of the Dr Elizabeth Nelson team on the conference Reading Worlds: Exploring Identity, Justice, and Multimodality in Children's and Young Adult Texts, hosted by Children's Literature Research Group, School of Education, University of Glasgow, in-person, June 2025
Zhang, R. (2024) Multilingual Learners' Literary Encounters with Audiobooks. Language in Teaching and Research event, co-hosted by the Linguistics and Knowledge about Language in Education Special Interest Group (LKALE SIG 2024), British Association for Applied Linguistics (BAAL), Online, 30 August 2024.
Zhang, R. (2024) Co-designing critical, crafty reader response activities for 3-5 year olds during “book sharing” library activities. Presented as part of Dr Elizabeth Nelson team at Multiple Views for Multiple Audiences-Reading, Writing and Mediating Books for Children and Young Adults, University of Glasgow, 30 May, 2024
Zhang, R. (2023) Exploring the Impact of Social Annotation on Reading Comprehension and Critical Thinking. 19th ChinaCALL Conference, Inner Mongolia Normal University, China, 10-12 August 2023.
Additional Information
Educational background
- 2017-2021: Beijing Foreign Studies University, China (Bachelor in Management Science)
- 2021-2022: University of Reading, Institute of Education (Master of Arts)
- 2023 to present: University of Glasgow, PhD student
Internship
- Global Multilingualism Project Intern (commenced on Nov 4, 2024)
