About Us
Team director
Dr. Susanna Siu-Sze Yeung is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology. She has taught at the university level in the areas of educational psychology, developmental psychology, cognitive psychology and young children with special needs. She is our team leader with research projects related to second language learning, reading intervention, evidence-based practice, student learning, and biliteracy development.
Her dissertation focused on the relationship between phonological awareness and reading among young children who learn English as a second language. Her research interests revolve around young children’s language and reading development in a second language. Other research foci include affective and cognitive factors associated with language and reading development and effects of reading intervention.
Currently, her projects investigate children's typical and atypical reading development in English, cognitive-linguistic foundations and affective processes of second language learning and the role of home environment in language learning. She also investigates how to optimize learning in various technological platforms.
Second Language Learning
Evidence-based Reading
Intervention
Optimize Learning in
Technological Platforms
Our team
Our team aims to understand the role of home environment, children’s reading development (i.e., metalinguistic skills), and how technological or language interventions may benefit on learner's second language learning. Our research concentrates on the application of children's typical and atypical English reading development, cognitive-linguistic foundations and research findings to address major psychological and academic difficulties faced by normal students and students with different language learning difficulties. We also design technological and linguistic interventions that intend to boost several second language learning outcomes, either for normal students or students with reading difficulties. Our research adopted a plethora of different methodological approaches included cross-sectional, longitudinal, mixed-methods, online experimental, and intervention designs.