Yaqi Shen

Dr. Yaqi Shen earned her PhD in Curriculum and Instruction from Pennsylvania State University, with a doctoral minor in Educational Psychology. Before pursuing her doctoral studies, she obtained a Master of Science in Curriculum and Instruction from Florida State University.

With a background as both an English language learner and an English teacher, Dr. Shen’s research interests focus on biliteracy development, literacy assessment, and classroom-based reading interventions. She aims to conduct research that informs instructional practices to enhance the reading development of students from diverse linguistic backgrounds. Her current project explores the different types of morphological awareness in both Chinese and English and their impact on English reading comprehension and vocabulary acquisition among Chinese-English bilingual middle school students.

Dr. Shen has given multiple presentations at national conferences such as the American Educational Research Association, American Association of Applied Linguistics, Literacy Research Association, and the Society for the Scientific Study of Reading.  Her works were published in Reading and Writing, Journal of Research in Reading, Reading Psychology as well as Research Methods in Applied Linguistics. Her coauthored article received the 2022 Research in Literacy Education Award from the United Kingdom Literacy Association.