Ledong Li, Ph.D.

Research interests

The two major areas of my current research are educational technology (e-learn and digital literacy theories and practice in K-12 classrooms) and global literacy (focusing on literacy education issues both in the US and in China). As the coordinator of China programs at the School of Education and Human Services, I have supervised numerous international projects and programs in the areas of ESL teacher training, joint Master’s Degree of Arts in Teaching Reading and Language Arts, and K-12 school teachers and students international-cultural exchange.

• Digital Literacy in the 21^st Century
• Educational Technology: Theory and Practice
• International Literacy Learning Community
• K-12 Cross-Cultural Teaching and Learning
• ESL Teaching and Learning

Past research activities/experience

• Theory in Reading Processes
• Phonological Processing of Reading in Chinese and English
• Digital Storytelling
• Stance and Navigation in Expository Hypertext
• Teaching English as a Second or Foreign Language
• Translation: Chinese and English

Current research activities

• Publishing a book of methods in teaching reading and language arts (in Chinese) based on recent research done in the US and China

Research goals/plans for future projects

• Carrying out research in e-learn at K-12 levels
• Publishing a book on theory and practice in teaching digital literacy in the 21^st century