Publications

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.

How does word knowledge facilitate reading comprehension in a second language?

Do vocabulary, syntactic awareness, and reading comprehension in second language facilitate the development of each other in young children?

Directionality and developmental mechanism of cross-linguistic transfer of phonological awareness to early writing skill in young Chinese learners.

The impact of an online gamified approach embedded with self-regulated learning support on students’ reading performance and intrinsic motivation: A randomized controlled trial