Prof. PENG Yue

BA (SCU & UB), MA (SCU), PhD (Queen’s)

Assistant Professor
Prof. PENG Yue

Prof. PENG Yue

Assistant Professor

HTB Rm. 404
3943 3751


Introduction
Dr. Yue (Luna) Peng is an Assistant Professor of Chinese Language Education at the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). She received her Ph.D. in Education from Queen’s University in Canada. Prior to joining CUHK, she was a Lecturer of Applied Linguistics at Shanghai University of Finance and Economics. Luna taught Chinese as a second language in China, Korea, and Canada, both in K-12 and in university settings. The courses she teaches at CUHK include Teaching Chinese to Non-Chinese Speaking Students, Chinese Language Assessment, and Theories of Elocution and Writing in Chinese Language Teaching.
Research Areas
Chinese language education, multilingual education, language teacher education, language assessment
Other positions
Associate Director, Centre for Language Education and Multiliteracies Research (CLEMR), CUHK
Member of Executive Committee, Center for Research and Development of Putonghua Education, CUHK
Assistant Editor, International Journal of Chinese Language Teaching
Selected Publications
  1. Peng, Y., Lou, K., Xiong, T. (2024). Understanding teacher professional commitment from a positive psychology perspective: A case from Myanmar's Chinese language teachers. Modern Language Journal, 108(1), 222-242.
  2. Peng, Y. (2024). Reconciling the evolving conceptualisations of language teacher cognition from an activity theory perspective. Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, 52(2), 226–240.
  3. Peng, Y., & Wan, Y. (2023). Understanding parental agency in family language policies from language-as-resource ideology perspective: the case of three Shanghainese families. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1–12.
  4. Peng, Y. (2023). Synergizing learning in and beyond the classroom in study abroad context: Accounts from CSL sojourners in China. Language, Culture and Curriculum, 36(3), 257–275.
  5. Lou, K., Xiong, T. & Peng, Y. (2023) ‘I have been dreaming about Chinese becoming the number one language in the world’: Chinese language educators’ language ideologies in Myanmar. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 41(1), 65-77.
  6. Xiong, T., & Peng, Y. (2022). Culture and Chinese as a second language (CSL) teaching materials: An introduction. International Journal of Chinese Language Teaching, 3(2), 1-6.
  7. Peng, Y., & Xiong, T. (2022). Teachers’ engagement with cultural knowledge and values in Business English textbooks. In T. Xiong, D. Feng, & G. Hu (Eds.), Values in English teaching materials: Stakeholders, multimodality, and representation (pp. 129-144). Springer.
  8. Xiong, T., & Peng, Y. (2022). An evaluative case study of a professional development program for primary school English teachers in a rural region in China. In S. Zein & Y. Butler (Eds.), Teaching English to young learners in Asia: Directions for teacher education (pp. 156-180). Routledge.
  9. Peng, Y., & Pyper, J. (2021). Finding success with pedagogical innovation: A case from CSL teachers’ experiences with TBLT. Language Teaching Research, 25(4), 633-655.
  10. Peng, Y., Yan, W. & Cheng, L. (2021). Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi (HSK): A multi-level, multi-purpose proficiency test. Language Testing, 38(2), 327-337.
  11. Peng, Y., & Xiong, T. (2021). Recreating or reproducing pedagogy: The journey of three CSL teachers’ learning of the communicative approach. The Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 30(2), 131-140.
  12. Xiong, T., & Peng, Y. (2020). Representing culture in Chinese-as-a-second language textbooks: A critical social semiotic approach. Language, Culture and Curriculum, 34(2), 163-182.
  13. Peng, Y., & Yan, W. (2019). Walking the garden path toward academic language: Perspectives from international students in Chinese higher education. In H. Tao, & H. Chen (Eds.), Chinese for specific and professional purposes: Theory, pedagogical applications and theories(pp. 73-94). Springer.
  14. Peng, Y. (2018). Foreign language education in China: When reforms meet tradition. Canadian Journal for New Scholars in Education, 9(2), 122-130.