Dr. Min Wang received her Ph.D. in Applied
Cognitive Science from the University of Toronto in 2000. Upon
graduation she completed her post-doctoral training at the Learning
Research and Development Center at the University of Pittsburgh, funded
by a fellowship from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research
Council of Canada. She became a member of the Faculty of Human
Development at the University of Maryland in 2002.
Dr. Wang’s research interests are
in the area of language and reading
development. Specifically, she is interested in how cross language and
writing system differences impact learning to speak and read in a first
and second language. Her recent work has mainly focused on
Chinese-English, Korean-English, Spanish-English bilingual children and
adults, and funded by NIH/NICHD, NSF, and Spencer Foundation in the
past ten years. Dr. Wang is also interested in extending her work to
other bilingual populations involving various languages and writing
systems in the world.
Dr. Wang is currently serving on
the editorial boards of
Applied
Psycholinguistics,
Writing Systems Research,
Contemporary Educational
Psychology, and
International
Multilingual Research Journal. She is
also serving the current Director of Graduate Studies in her department
and the Executive Committee of the
NSF-IGERT
program at the University
of Maryland in Biological and Computational Foundations of Language
Diversity.
Language and reading
acquisition in first languages; Learning to read in a second
language;
Bilingual/bilteracy development
