Academic Profile : Faculty
Dr Sun Baoqi
Senior Education Research Scientist, Centre for Research in Child Development
Senior Research Scientist, National Institute of Education - Office for Research
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My research encompasses socio-cultural-cognitive and policy perspectives on language learning with particular focus on children’s bilingual education and biliteracy development. Within these broad perspectives, my research address three main issues: What are the underlying social, cognitive and linguistic factors for biliteracy development? How literacy instructional approaches can provide advancements or constraints in learning to read two languages? How do bi/multilingual community and school contexts influence and interact with home context to support bilingual learners? To address these research issues, I have examined bilingual home and school contexts in Singapore on topic of metalinguistic awareness, home literacy practices, leisure reading, and family language policy. My interdisciplinary training has allowed me to incorporate different research approaches into my work and to contribute to the field of applied linguistics, literacy studies as well as general educational research.
Current Appointment
Research Scientist, Centre for Research in Child Development (2017 - Present)
Previous Appointment
• Research Fellow, English Language and Literature Academic Group, NIE (2016 - 2017)
• Research Assistant, Centre for Research in Pedagogy and Practice, NIE (2012 - 2015)
Current Appointment
Research Scientist, Centre for Research in Child Development (2017 - Present)
Previous Appointment
• Research Fellow, English Language and Literature Academic Group, NIE (2016 - 2017)
• Research Assistant, Centre for Research in Pedagogy and Practice, NIE (2012 - 2015)
Bilingual Education,Biliteracy Development,Language Acquisition,Leisure Reading
- Designing School Libraries of the Future (LOTF Study)
- Building Teachers' and Students' Capacities in Student-Involved Assessment in Primary Classrooms
- A Study on ICT Initiatives for Blended Learning in the New Chinese Mother Tongue Curriculum for Secondary Three Students: Implementation and Effectiveness
- Reading Futures Study: A Longitudinal Cross-Case Comparison of Adolescents' Print and Digital Reading Practices
- Evaluating Reading Gain from a Mobile Library Intervention in a Low-Income Neighbourhood
- Growth in Bilingual & Biliteracy Proficiency: Environmental, Individual & Experiential Factors (GIBBER)
- Phase 1 of CORE 4 Research Programme: Baseline Investigations of Designated Subject Domain (DSD) Pedagogies in Singapore's Primary and Secondary Classrooms (C4P1)
- Leisure Reading in Two Languages: Reading Habits and Preferences of Bilingual Children in Singapore
- CORE 3 Research Programme: Baseline Investigation of Mother Tongue Pedagogies in Singapore's Primary and Secondary Classrooms (C3MT)
- A study on early mathematics professional development
- Developing Science Teachers' Language Awareness to Enhance the Teaching of Disciplinary Literacy: A Study of Teachers' Lesson Enactments through the Lens of Adaptive Expertise
- Development of Mother Tongue Language Assessment Tools and SKIP project data finalisation
- Biliterate Shared Book Intervention with Disadvantaged Preschoolers
- Words in two Languages: Fostering Vocabulary Development in Kindergarten Children through Synchronized Bilingual Reading Programme
- Early Support for Foundational Skills of Preschool Children at Socio-Economic Risk in Singapore
- Deepening The Dialogic Discourse and Thinking of NTU Students Through Student-Led Book Clubs on Children's Literature: Strengthening Prevailing Practices