2024-25 News

New educational research project fund

Yvette, with Dr. Zi Wang and Sara Hattersley, received around £1000 of WIHEA seed fund to organize intercultural training/continuous professional development workshops for Graduate Teaching Assistants and conduct research on their experience of teaching in multilingual multicultural classrooms.

New conference presentations

2024 17-19 Dec Beyond a theory-applied approach: A Critique of Anti-Essentialist Discourses in Intercultural Language Teacher Development, at 14th International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Applied Linguistics and Professional Practice (ALAPP)

2024 28-30 Nov A Critique of Anti-Essentialist Discourses: Ethical Issues in Intercultural Language Teacher Development, at 24th International Association of Language and Intercultural Communication Conference (IALIC)

New qualification

Yvette has successfully completed APP PGR program and obtained the Advance HE Associate Fellowship.

New appointments

Yvette has been appointed as a Monash-Warwick Alliance Associate

Yvette has been nominated and appointed as a Fellow of the Warwick International Higher Education Academy for 24/25.

Yvette has been selected and appointed to the committee of International Association for Language and Intercultural Communication for 24-27.

See my news history in the archive

Professional Activities

2024 Designer & Organizer, GTA Tips & Tricks Workshop: Developing interactional competence in teaching. Academic Development Centre

2024 Project assistant, “Enhancing Research Culture Fund” project: “Countering silos and hierarchies through peer-to-peer research-in-progress conversations”. Enhancing Research Culture Fund

2024 PGR Teacher Champion

2023-2024 Postgraduate Student Representative, the University Research Governance and Ethics Committee

2023-2025 Intercultural Training Facilitator, Student Opportunity, University of Warwick

2023-2024 Managing Editor, ELTED Journal

2022-2023 PGR Development Officer, Doctoral College, University of Warwick

2021-2024 Convenor of Language, Culture, Matters Seminar Series, Department of Applied Linguistics

2021-2022 Chair, 24th Warwick International Conference in Applied Linguistics, Department of Applied Linguistics

Research Projects

2024-2025 Project assistant, “Countering silos and hierarchies through peer-to-peer research-in-progress conversations” phase 1 and 2

2023-2024 Principal investigator, Towards an Inclusive Library Landscape, Monash Warwick Alliance Student-led Activity Fund

2022-2023 Research assistant, Research on Language Teacher Professional Development, UK-China EMaDA Research and Materials Development Awards by British Council, Department of Applied Linguistics

2022 July Managing Linguistic Landscape Signs: Multilingualism in leaflets in Coventry Central Library, Multilingualism and Diversity Programme

Publications

Peer reviewed journal paper

Wang, Y. Y. (2023) Navigating theory and practice in intercultural language teaching: Challenges faced by a pre-service language teacher in enacting an interpretive perspective in classroom interaction. Intercultural Communication Education, 6(2), 53–72. https://doi.org/10.29140/ice.v6n2.893

British Council Research Project Commissioned reports

Liddicoat, Anthony J., Neil Murray, Penny Mosavian, Steve Mann, Annamaria Pinter, Meifang Zhuo, Yvette Yitong Wang, Xiaofang Lu (2023) Research on the evolution of educational ecology and construction of a professional learning community (PLC) for English teachers’ development under the Rural Revitalisation Strategy. Report to the British Council. Department of Applied Linguistics, University of Warwick.

Liddicoat, Anthony J., Neil Murray, Steve Mann, Annamaria Pinter, Penny Mosavian, Meifang Zhuo, Yvette Yitong Wang, Xiaofang Lu (2023) EMaDA: Supporting sustainable English teacher CPD in Yunnan Province: Overview report. Report to the British Council. Department of Applied Linguistics, University of Warwick.

Liddicoat, Anthony J., Steve Mann, Annamaria Pinter, Neil Murray, Penny Mosavian, Meifang Zhuo, Yvette Yitong Wang, Xiaofang Lu (2023) Research on development of cross-regional English teaching and research communities in bordering minority areas through systematic support for expert teacher workshops. Report to the British Council. Department of Applied Linguistics, University of Warwick.

Liddicoat, Anthony J., Steve Mann, Penny Mosavian, Neil Murray, Annamaria Pinter, Meifang Zhuo, Yvette Yitong Wang, Xiaofang Lu (2023) Research into core curriculum design of postgraduate core courses for prospective English teachers in Southwest China. Report to the British Council. Department of Applied Linguistics, University of Warwick.

Professional development materials

Wang, Yvette Yitong, Meifang Zhuo, Maricarmen Gamero Mujica, Xiaofang Lu, Annamaria Pinter and Steve Mann (2023) PLC guide. Report to the British Council (Companion volume). Department of Applied Linguistics, University of Warwick.

Book Reviews

Wang, Y. (2022). Language management and its impact: The policies and practices of confucius institutes: (routledge studies in applied linguistics), by linda mingfang li, new York/Abingdon, routledge, 2019, 193 pp., £29.59, ISBN 13: 978-0-367-58415-3 (paperback) and 987-1-138-48001-8 (hardback). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.1080/14664208.2022.2136882

Teaching

Centre for Teacher Education, University of Warwick

2025 Guest lecturer, PGCE Secondary English

Department of Applied Linguistics, University of Warwick

2025 Workshop tutor, Leadership Teamwork and Culture

2023/24 Senior Graduate Teaching Assistant, Sociolinguistics of English as a Global Language

2022/23 Senior Graduate Teaching Assistant, the Intercultural Pragmatics short course for students from Hong Kong Metropolitan University

2022/23 Associate Tutor, MSc Research Methods

2022/24 Dissertation Supervisor, MA TESOL Programme

2022/23 Guest lecturer, MA Specialism in Intercultural Language Teaching and Learning

2021/22 Associate Tutor, MA Research Methods

Award

2023 14-18 August (funded by Doctoral College) Cumberland Lodge Annual Postgraduate Conference: Life Beyond the PhD 2023.

Conferences and Presentations

2024 17-19 Dec Beyond a theory-applied approach: A Critique of Anti-Essentialist Discourses in Intercultural Language Teacher Development, at 14th International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Applied Linguistics and Professional Practice (ALAPP)

2024 28-30 Nov A Critique of Anti-Essentialist Discourses: Ethical Issues in Intercultural Language Teacher Development, at 24th International Association of Language and Intercultural Communication Conference (IALIC)

2024 14 May Demystifying modern language education, at Pint of Science.

2024 17-19 April From theory to practice: prospective language teachers' professional learning of intercultural teaching in and through reflective practice, at Cultnet annual meeting.

2024 26-28 March Essentialist Challenges in Intercultural Teaching for Diversity in Practice, at the International Association of Intercultural Education Conference.

2023 8 March A Case Study of a Pre-service Language Teacher's Classroom Practice of Intercultural Language Teaching: Challenges in Knowledge Building, Language, Culture, Matters seminar series, Department of Applied Linguistics, University of Warwick

2022 13 July Managing Linguistic Landscape Signs: Multilingualism in leaflets in Coventry Central Library, EUROTPIA Multilingualism and Diversity Student Conference

2022 22-23 April How can we teach culture in ELT classrooms? An intercultural perspective on English language teaching and learning, ELT Research in Action Conference (online), Universitat de Barcelona, Spain