Hi! My name is Ye Shen. I am an educational scholar on a mission to support multilingual children’s learning and development by contributing to the knowledge base on their language, literacy, academic, and socioemotional development. The bulk of my research uses quantitative-oriented method, such as longitudinal growth curve modeling, structural equation modeling, and regressions. My award-winning research has been published in top-tier journals and funded by the American Educational Research Association and National Science Foundation, American Psychological Association, and the Language Learning Early Career Research Grant.
I currently work as a Dean's Diversity Postdoctoral Fellow in the College of Education and Human Ecology at The Ohio State University. I will be joining the University of South Florida as an Assistant Professor of ESOL in August 2024. When I am not writing papers, I love to spend time with my family and play with my big camera.
I graduated from the University of Delaware with a Ph.D. in Education in 2022. I hold a master’s degree in Curriculum and Instruction from the University of Maryland, College Park, and a bachelor’s degree in Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language from the Shanghai University of Finance and Economics in China. Prior to pursuing my academic career, I worked as an elementary school Chinese immersion teacher in Delaware.
As a researcher, I broadly focus on bilingual language development and literacy acquisition among linguistically diverse children. I examine the cognitive and neurobiological mechanisms underlying bilingual reading development, as well as the external factors (e.g., subtractive educational programming, socioeconomic status) that impact bilingual literacy. I take an interdisciplinary approach using both behavioral and neuroimaging measures to study the cross-linguistic processes underlying bilingual literacy acquisition.
I graduated from the University of Delaware with a Ph.D. in Education in 2022. I hold a master’s degree in Curriculum and Instruction from the University of Maryland, College Park, and a bachelor’s degree in Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language from the Shanghai University of Finance and Economics in China. Prior to pursuing my academic career, I worked as an elementary school Chinese immersion teacher in Delaware.
As a researcher, I broadly focus on bilingual language development and literacy acquisition among linguistically diverse children. I examine the cognitive and neurobiological mechanisms underlying bilingual reading development, as well as the external factors (e.g., subtractive educational programming, socioeconomic status) that impact bilingual literacy. I take an interdisciplinary approach using both behavioral and neuroimaging measures to study the cross-linguistic processes underlying bilingual literacy acquisition.
