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 as Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, The Modern Language Journal, and Studies in Second Language Acquisition.

She is the author of the monograph A Positive Psychology Perspective on Chinese EFL Students’ Emotional Intelligence and Classroom Emotions (Wuhan University Press, 2020) and the monograph The 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 of the Journal of Multilingualism and Multicultural Development, Associate Editor of Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching and Contemporary Foreign Language Studies, and Book Series Editor for Routledge Studies in the Psychology of Language Education. She also sits on the editorial boards of several prestigious journals, including Annual Review of Applied Linguistics, The Journal for the Psychology of Language Learning, and Research 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).