Wenjuan Qin

Wenjuan Qin is Assistant Professor at Fudan University, College of Foreign Languages and Literature. She graduated from Harvard University with a Doctoral Degree in Human Development and Education.

With interest in both linguistics and education, her teaching and researching primarily focus on language development of children and adolescents from various sociocultural backgrounds, and how that development is shaped by both home and school contexts. She conducts empirical studies, both quantitative and qualitative in nature, to address three lines of research area:

• Writing development of second language learners, especially how they deploy different linguistic forms to write across genres, registers and communicative contexts.
• The development of academic language skills that support successful school-relevant reading and writing.
• The influence of home literacy activity on children's language developme

EDUCATION

• Doctor of Education, Harvard University 2012-2018
• Master of Education, Harvard University 2011
• Bachelor of Arts, Beijing Foreign Studies University 2010

TEACHING

Assistant Professor, Fudan University

Courses offered:

• Introduction to Academic Writing in English
• Applied Linguistics

Teaching Fellow, Harvard University

Courses taught:

• Bilingual Learners: Literacy Development and Instruction
• Reading to Learn: Socialization, Language and Deep Comprehension
• Intermediate Statistics: Applied Regression and Data Analysis
• Empirical Methods: Introduction to Statistics for Research

HONORS & FELLOWSHIPS

• ETS Grant for Doctoral Research in Second or Foreign Language Assessment 2016
• Harvard GSE Deans’ Research Fellowship 2014, 2016
• Harvard GSE Jeanne Chall Reading Lab Grant 2015
• Harvard GSE Doctoral Student Travel Grant 2014, 2015
• Harvard - Poppins Scholarship 2013
• BFSU Outstanding Undergraduate Thesis 2010
• ETS TOEFL Scholarship 2010