Junyi Yang

Junyi Yang is a Research Fellow at the Department of Education, University of Oslo, specializing in child language development and bilingualism. Their doctoral project investigates how Chinese-Norwegian children develop languages in home environments through family interactions.

• Current projects: SpedAims Kohort longitudinal study
• Research groups: DEAL (Development, Equity and Literacy in Learning Contexts)

Research focuses on:

• Home literacy environments
• Parental linguistic strategies (idioms, questions)
• Statistical modeling of language growth

Publications address multimodal literacy practices and family communication patterns influencing vocabulary development in bilingual children.