Wenjuan Qin

Wenjuan Qin is an associate professor at the College of Foreign Languages and Literature, Fudan University, China. She received her doctorate from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Her teaching and researching focus on language development as influenced by home and school factors in learners from various linguistic and sociocultural backgrounds. She conducts quantitative, qualitative and mixed-methods studies to address three lines of research: 1) Writing development of second language learners, especially how they deploy different linguistic forms to write across genres, registers and communicative contexts. 2) Development of academic language skills for school-relevant reading and writing. 3) Influence of home literacy practices on children's language development.