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Dongping Zheng<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nMoore Hall 403
\n 808.956.9537
\n zhengd hawaii.edu
\n http:\/\/manoa-hawaii.academia.edu\/DongpingZheng
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https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-8725-1034<\/a>\n

Dongping Zheng is an associate professor in the Department of Second Language Studies at the University of Hawai’i at M\u0101noa. Her research, teaching and service can be holistically described as interdisciplinary and multifaceted in cutting edge methodologies and technologies. Shs been adamantly embracing the Distributed Language perspectives in her applied work and an active board member of The International Society for the Study of Interactivity, Language, and Cognition<\/a> (ISSILC). She studies how to design distributed language learning environments <\/a>to foster emerging bilinguals to take skilled linguistic action (including pragmatics and mindful action) that has a positive effect in environmental awareness, caring, creativity and bilingual\/bicultural development. For example, Guardians of the Mo’o Mobile App was created for international students’ behavior patterning and participating on Âé¶¹´«Ã½campus, and East-West Center campus. This design-based research investigates the process of becoming community members of the additional language environment. Her current project is in collaboration with VISLAB at the Chinese Academy of Forestry, creating a wild panda reserve Virtual Reality. Taking into consideration the harmonious unity of nature and humanity leveraging VR and AI features, the virtual reserve may play a key role, along with artifacts in the larger ecosystem, to cultivate environmental awareness and new languaging\/translanguaging habits for emerging bilinguals .\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

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