She studies how technology can alter and augment language learning processes in place-based environments. She has published a dozen papers on the topics of affordances of virtual worlds, video games and mobile devices for cross-cultural communication and education. She is also interested in Chinese philosophy, namely Confucian role ethics, Daoism/Taoism and traditional Chinese medicine. Her recent work has been focusing on finding common ground between these correlative cosmological perspectives and Cartesian reductionist approaches to building a culturally balanced research methodology. She has proposed “行动协商”理论(Negotiation for Action),“言语行动的价值实现”理论(Languaging as Values-realizing),和“关护行动语言学习”理论(Language Learners as Caretakers)，从语言学习者到跨文化场所体验者（From Language Learner’s identity to Cross-Cultural Becomings).