LLDL News
New Publication in Childrens!
Congratulations Maria! Great teamwork with our Berkeley team!
Chan, M., Buttiler, M.B., Yang, F., Yang, J., Uchikoshi, Y., & Zhou, Q. (2022). Teachers’ language use in multilingual Head Start classrooms: Implications for dual language learners. Children, 9(12), 1871. https://doi.org/10.3390/children9121871
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New Publication in Frontiers!
Congratulations to Emily, Natasha, Xintong, and Maria! The idea for this paper came from their Undergraduate Research Conference presentation! Thank you, Emily for mentoring them!
Publication stemming from URC 2020 Project
Frontiers in Psychology
Congratulations to Mayu, Krystal, Hallie, Helen, and Cecilia! The idea for this paper came from their 2020 Undergraduate Research Conference presentation! Thank you, Mayu for mentoring them!
New Papers on Chinese-English Bilinguals
Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development Special Issue
First publication led by Dr. Genevieve Leung
Congratulations 2021 Graduates!
Congratulations to our 2021 Graduates! We had a fun time celebrating our graduates and playing games on zoom for our final 2020-2021 get-together!
McNair & Murals Workshop
Diana Santoyo & Yuliett Olivas-Gonzalez
URC virtual presentation
Spring 2021
11 undergraduate students presented at the annual URC conference! Congratulations on a great job!
Parenting Effects on Language Development in Mexican-American and Chinese-American Dual Language Learners by Man Ling Cheryl Au, Nina Sendra Funato, and Qianya Sun
SRCD conference presentation 2
April 2021
Ph.D. student Emily Mak worked with our Berkeley collaborators and presented her findings on parent-child book reading.
Mak, E., Mauer, E., Luo, R., Uchikoshi, Y., & Zhou, Q. (2021, Apr 7 – 9) Book-Sharing and Heritage Vocabulary Development in Dual Language Preschoolers [Poster]. SRCD Virtual Biennial Meeting.
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SRCD Conference Presentation 1
April 2021
We had several presentations from our lab!
We expanded on one of our 2020 URC presentations by Krystal Bautista, Cecilia Plascencia, Helen Tran, and Hallie Yu and got it accepted into a symposium at SRCD! Ph.D. student Mayu took the lead and presented at the virtual SRCD conference.
AERA Conference Presentation
April 2021
Congratulations to Frances Lansdowne who presented a revised version of her Senior Honors Thesis at AERA with the help of Ph.D. student, Emily Mak.
Lansdowne, F., Mak, E., Uchikoshi, Y., & Zhou, Q. (2021, Apr 8 – 12) Home Literacy Environment and Oral Proficiency: Dual Language Learners from Immigrant Families [Poster]. AERA Annual Meeting.
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Congratulations to Frances on her Honors Thesis
Congratulations to Frances for receiving “Highest Honors” on her Honors Thesis entitled “Home Environment and Oral Proficiency: Emerging Bilinguals from Immigrant Families”.
Frances will be presenting her research at the annual AERA conference this spring 2021.
Congratulations to our graduating seniors!
A big congratulations to our seniors! In June, twelve of our lab members graduated!
Marlene Andrade, Krystal Jane Bautista, Zi Fang, Daniela Garcia, Gustavo Hinojosa, Jaqui Jimenez, Frances Lansdowne, Darlyng Lopez, Cecilia Plascencia, Yenifer Silvetre, Paola Urena Sanchez, Xuying Yuki Yu
Thank you for all your help in transcribing, assessing, data entry, translations, coding, recruiting, interviewing, and so much more!
Congratulations and best of luck in your future endeavors!
Congratulations Dr. Lu Yang!
Lu Yang, Ph.D. is now working as a Senior Data Analyst at Applied Survey Research in the Bay Area.
Undergraduate Research Conference 2020
May 6-7, 2020
We have 16 students from our lab presenting their findings at the Virtual URC conference. All students spent this past year looking at the literature, coming up with research questions, and analyzing the data. Please go to the virtual conference to hear their recorded presentations and leave them comments/questions!
Frances Lansdowne will present on Home Environment and Oral Proficiency: Emerging Bilinguals From Immigrant Families
Congratulations Diana and Helen!
Congratulations to our graduating
seniors, Diana Santoyo and Helen
Tran who graduated Winter Quarter 2020!
Diana has been with our lab since she was a freshman and has been involved in all of our projects. We couldn’t have done our Woodland study and now our LEAD study without her! Diana also presented at the URC conference (twice!) and the McNair conference, and her manuscript is forthcoming in the McNair Journal.
AERA 2020 Conference
We will be sharing some of our recent work:
Head Start Teachers’ Language Use in Classrooms
Presenter: Megan Chan, Francis Yang, Qing Zhou & Yuuko Uchikoshi
Undergraduate Research Conference 4/26/2019
Great work from 11 of our undergraduate RAs!
Friday, April 26, 2019 at the ARC Pavilon.
Title: Bilingualism and Executive Functioning: Emerging Bilinguals in Head Start
Presenter: Diana Santoyo
AERA Presentation
April 2019
Our project coordinator, Neva He, presented on a panel on Chinese Dual Immersion Programs. Co-authors: Lu Yang, Ty Brownridge, Genevieve Leung, Qing Zhou, and Yuuko Uchikoshi
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SRCD Presentation
April 2019
Lu Yang, Aya Williams, Qing Zhou and Yuuko Uchikoshi presented on ”Language Environment, Parental Attitudes and Acculturation among Dual Language Learners in Head Start”
Abstract: Dual language learners (DLLs) make up 32% of young children (age 0 to 8) in the U.S. (Park, O’Toole, & Katsiaficas, 2017). Spanish and Chinese are the top two home languages spoken in DLLs’ families (Park, O’Toole, & Katsiaficas, 2017).
