Wesely’s scholarship and teaching examines K-12 foreign/world language education in the United States. Building on eight years of work as a middle school French teacher and 11 years working in the experiential learning environment of Concordia Language Villages in Minnesota, she studies the attitudes, motivations, perceptions, and beliefs of stakeholders in K-12 foreign/world language education. Innovation is a key area of interest in her work, particularly pedagogical innovation that departs from the grammar-based curriculum, like content-based instruction, instruction focused on comprehensible input, social justice education, and technology integration in the language classroom. She is a co-author of "Words and Actions: Teaching Language Through the Lens of Social Justice" (ACTFL, 2018). Wesely is a past member of the ACTFL Board of Directors and is a past president of the Iowa World Language Association (IWLA).