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Biography: My research interests are in the areas of bilingual/ESL and Chinese children's literacy development and cross-cultural and cross-linguistic studies of literacy. I have studied extensively the visual, phonological, and morphological processes in learning to read Chinese. I have examined bilingual children's phonological and morphological awareness. I am currently working on developing a model to capture the development of strategies in learning to read Chinese among children in China and Chinese children in Canada. I am also involved in a project that investigates how ESL children's literacy experience in their native language affects their development in English. My research takes a cross-cultural and cross-linguistic comparative perspective. The goal is to understand universal and unique processes in learning to read different orthographies |
The language and culture of my heritage is passed on to me orally. it's a different way off learning than how I am taught at school. How do I keep my traditional culture alive while learning to read and being immersed in the majority culture?
Reading is the core of learning and staying in school . improving reading skills with young Aboriginal children can open up the doors to future prospects.