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Min Wang is a Professor in the Department of Human Development and Quantitative Methodology at the University of Maryland, where she has served since 2002. She directs the Bilingual and Biliteracy Research Lab and holds editorial positions for Applied Psycholinguistics, Writing Systems Research, Contemporary Educational Psychology, and International Multilingual Research Journal.
Education:
- Ph.D. in Applied Cognitive Science from University of Toronto (2000)
- Post-doctoral training at University of Pittsburgh funded by Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
Her research centers on cross-linguistic analysis of literacy development, examining how orthographic and typological differences between languages impact bilingual reading acquisition. She investigates universal and language-specific processes through comparative studies of Chinese-English, Korean-English, and Spanish-English bilingual populations across developmental stages.
Scientific Awards:
- Fellow of the Association of Psychological Science (APS)
- Fellow of the Psychonomic Society
Dr. Wang has secured major funding from NIH/NICHD, NSF, and Spencer Foundation for her bilingual literacy research. She previously served as Director of Graduate Studies in her department and on the Executive Committee of UMD's NSF-IGERT program in Biological and Computational Foundations of Language Diversity, mentoring students in cross-linguistic literacy research.
The Bilingual and Biliteracy Research Lab conducts systematic comparisons of L1 orthographic influences on L2 English acquisition, operating within UMD's NSF-funded Language Science community (IGERT/NRT programs) to explore universal principles of bilingual literacy development across diverse language pairs.
