Chengchen Li is a Full Professor of Applied Linguistics at the School of Foreign Languages, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China. Her research interests include positive psychology, second-language (L2) writing, task-based language teaching, and bilingualism. She has published over 60 articles in internationally refereed journals, such asBilingualism: Language and Cognition,The Modern Language Journal, andStudies in Second Language Acquisition.

She is the author of the monographA Positive Psychology Perspective on Chinese EFL Students’ Emotional Intelligence and Classroom Emotions(Wuhan University Press, 2020) and the monographThe Underlying Factors and Mechanisms of Foreign Language Learning Engagement Among Rural Left-Behind Children: A Positive Psychology Perspective(Shanghai Jiao Tong University Press, 2026).

Professor Li serves as Co-Editor oftheJournal of Multilingualism and Multicultural Development, Associate Editor ofStudies in Second Language Learning and TeachingandContemporary Foreign Language Studies, and Book Series Editor for RoutledgeStudies in the Psychology of Language Education. She also sits on the editorial boards of several prestigious journals, includingAnnual Review of Applied Linguistics, The Journal for the Psychology of Language Learning, andResearch Methods in Applied Linguistics.

Additionally, she holds the position of Vice President of the International Association for the Psychology of Language Learning. Dr. Li’s research contributions have been recognized by her inclusion in Clarivate’s Highly Cited Researchers list (2024-2025) and Stanford’s World’s Top 2% Scientists list (2022-2025).