Ye Shen

Ye Shen is a Ph.D. in Education student specializing in Literacy in the School of Education at the University of Delaware. Her research interest lies in language and literacy development in diverse populations of people, specifically bilingual people. She is interested in reading-writing connections and cross-language transfer of reading and writing skills among bilingual students.

She holds a master’s degree in Curriculum and Instruction from University of Maryland 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 the doctoral program at the University of Delaware, Ye worked as a Chinese immersion teacher in Delaware.

Education

• M.Ed., Curriculum and Instruction, University of Maryland, College Park, MD
• B.S., Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, Shanghai, China

Professional Experience

• Instructor, School of Education, University of Delaware, 2019–2020
• Graduate Research Assistant, School of Education, University of Delaware, 2019–2020
• Teaching Assistant, School of Education, University of Delaware, 2017–2019
• Chinese Immersion Teacher, Caesar Rodney School District, Wyoming, DE, 2014–2015
• Chinese Language Teacher, Confucius Institute, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, 2013–2014

Dissertation Support Awards

• 2022-2023, AERA-NSF Dissertation Grant, American Educational Research Association and National Science Foundation
• 2021-2022, APA Dissertation Research Award, American Psychological Association
• 2021-2022, NFMLTA-MLJ Dissertation Support Grant, National Federation of Modern Language Teachers Association and Modern Language Journal
• 2021-2022, University Dissertation Fellowship
• 2020-2022, UDRF – SI Graduate Initiative, University of Delaware Research Foundation
• 2021, Dissertation Support Award, School of Education, University of Delaware, DE
• 2020-2021, University Doctoral Fellowship, University of Delaware, Newark, DE
• 2020, 2019, Arnsdorf Summer Research Fellowship, School of Education, University of Delaware

Honors and Awards

• Diversity Travel Fellowship, Boston University Linguistic Conference on Language Development, Boston, MA, 2021
• Richard L. Venezky Award for Creative Research in Literacy, College of Education and Human Development, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, 2021
• SRCD Strategic Plan Poster, Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD), 2021
• AERA Second Language Research Graduate Student Travel Award, Second Language Research SIG, American Educational Research Association (AERA), 2021
• Paula Menyuk Travel Award, Boston University Linguistic Conference on Language Development, Boston, MA, 2019
• Arnsdorf Summer Research Award, School of Education, University of Delaware, 2019
• First Place for the Graduate Poster, 34th Annual Marion H. Steele Research Symposium, College of Education and Human Development, University of Delaware, 2019

Publications

• Shen, Y. & Del Tufo, S. N. (2022). Parent-child shared book reading mediates the impact of socioeconomic status on heritage language learners’ emergent literacy. Early Childhood Research Quarterly. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecresq.2021.12.003
• Shen, Y. & Del Tufo, S. N. (2022). The influence of orthographic depth on multilinguals’ neural networks. Neuropsychologia, 164, Article 108095. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2021.108095
• Zhang, F., Shen, Y., Pasquarella, A., & Coker, Jr. D. L. (2021). Early writing skills of English language learners (ELLs) and native English speakers (NESs): Examining predictors of contextualized spelling, writing fluency, and writing quality. Reading and Writing. Published online. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11145-021-10223-9
• Karpyn, A, E., Riser, D., Tracy, T., Wang, R., & Shen, Y. (2019). The changing landscape of food deserts. UNSCN Nutrition, 44, 46-53. Child Development.

Selected Presentations

• Shen, Y., Gesuelli, K. A., & Del Tufo, S. N. (2021, November). The cross-disciplinary relation between home literacy environment and heritage language learners’ counting ability. Poster presented at the 2021 Trends in Psychology Summit (TiPS).
• Shen, Y. & Del Tufo, S. N. (2021, April). Bilingual parent-child shared book reading mediates the impact of socioeconomic status on children’s emergent literacy. Poster presented at the 2021 Society for Research in Child Development Virtual Biennial Meeting.
• Shen, Y., Wang, R., Zhang, F., Barbieri, C. A., & Pasquarella, A. (2021, April). Differential effects of teacher judgment on students’ reading trajectories between DLI and non-DLI students. Poster presented at the 2021 Society for Research in Child Development Virtual Biennial Meeting.
• Shen, Y., Wang, R., Zhang, F., Barbieri, C. A., & Pasquarella, A. (2021, April). The effect of first grade enrollment in dual-language immersion programs on children’s reading growth over 5 years. Paper presented at the 2021 AERA Virtual Annual Meeting.
• Shen, Y. & Del Tufo, S. N. (2020, October). Learning a second language: Intrinsic connectivity from shallow to deep orthography. Poster presented at the 2020 virtual meeting of Society for the Neurobiology of Language.