Ailing Kong

Mailing address:
Department of Education
Saint Joseph's University
5600 City Ave.
Philadelphia, PA 19131

Email: akong@sju.edu

MSU degree: Ph. D in Educational Psychology, 2000

Dissertation topic:
The Road To Participation: The Evolution Of A Literary Community In An Intermediate Grade Classroom Of Linguistically Diverse Learners

Publications:
Kong, A., & Pearson, P. D. (2003). The road to participation: The construction of a literacy practice in a learning community of linguistically diverse learners. Research in the Teaching of English, 38(1).

Kong, A. & Fitch, E. (2002/2003). Using Book Club to engage culturally and linguistically diverse learners in reading, writing, and talking about books. The Reading Teacher, 56(4), 352-362.

Current position: Assistant Professor at Saint Joseph's University

Areas of special competence:
Literacy development; Second Language Acquisition; Language Arts Instruction

Language: Chinese & English