Zhuo Sun

• PhD Candidate in Language and Literacy Education
• PhD Student at University of British Columbia

This paper uses “prolepsis,” a process of reaching into the past to inform present and future practices, to understand 12 English-as-a-second language (ESL) teachers’ practices of supporting English language learners (ELLs) through remote teaching during the COVID-19 pandemic from 2020-2021 in British Columbia and to envision some different current...

Bilingual children in the North American context significantly improve in English language proficiency, but their heritage language learning varies between different linguistic groups. This mixed methods study was designed to explore the developmental patterns in bilingual vocabulary among Chinese-Canadian first-graders’ (N = 75) and to identify ho...

The increasing number of linguistically and culturally diverse children enrolled in schools in Western countries suggests a growing need to address the literacy development of young bilingual children. Existing research has found that while many young learners of English can achieve oral language proficiency and have many strengths in early print l...

Chinese immigrant children in North America often experience rapid growth in their English lexicon, while their heritage language (HL) vocabulary development is characterized by early stabilization and decline. This study was designed to explore whether and how factors such as SES, gender, L1, immigration status, home language use, mainstream and H...

The past 20 years of language and literacy research has made significant advancement in our understanding of the ways in which children acquire language and literacy skills in the home milieu. Children’s early oral and written language knowledge and skills are seen as emergent and continuously developing with increasing importance being attributed...

This concluding chapter puts the voices of this volume’s authors into dialogue with each other, exploring prominent themes, pertinent issues, and points of convergence and divergence emerging from the authors’ contributions. It discusses the potential contributions this volume makes to the field, and explore its implications for curriculum and peda...

This chapter draws on a comprehensive review of interdisciplinary research that focused on Asian students' educational experience in school and at home. It describes Asian immigrant parents' cultural beliefs on education, their family literacy practices and policies, and their perspectives and patterns of interacting with mainstream school staff, t...

Based on a conversational analysis (CA) of eight videoed EFL lessons from technology-enhanced primary classrooms in a rural suburb of a major city in China, this study examines the nature of technology-assisted practices and their influence on teacher-student interaction in the target language. The analysis revealed that the technology-assisted pra...