Members

Tomohiro Inoue, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Professorial Fellow, J. P. Das Canter on Developmental and Learning Disabilities, University of Alberta

Email: tinoue (at) cuhk.edu.hk

Research Profile: Google Scholar / ResearchGate / ORCiD / OSF / Researchmap (in Japanese)

Public Engagement: Twitter / Bluesky

Shawn Hemelstrand (Ph.D.)

Research interests: Second Language Acquisition (SLA), Chinese as a Foreign Language (CFL), Chinese literacy

Publication: Hemelstrand, S., Wong, B.W.L., McBride, C., Maurer, U., & Inoue, T. (2024). The impact of character complexity on Chinese literacy: A generalized additive modeling approach. Scientific Studies of Reading, 28(1), 1–20. https://doi.org/10.1080/10888438.2023.2217967

Gairan Pamei (Ph.D.)

Research interests: Language and Literacy Development, Role of Schools and Scripts on Cognition, Reproducible and Open Research, History and Philosophy of Science

Publication: Pamei, G., Cheah, Z. R. E., & McBride, C. (2023). Construct validity of international literacy measures: implications for dyslexia across cultures. Journal of Cultural Cognitive Science, 7, 159–173. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41809-022-00115-x

Zebedee Cheah Rui En (Ph.D.)

Research interests: Developmental dyslexia, Literacy acquisition, Early intervention

Publication: Cheah, Z. R. E., Ye, Y., Lui, K. F. H., McBride, C., & Maurer, U. (2023). Spelling as a way to classify poor Chinese-English literacy skills in Hong Kong Chinese children. Annals of Dyslexia, 73, 90–108. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11881-022-00262-4

Su-Zhen Zhang (Ph.D.)

Research interests: Chinese reading development, Psycholinguistics, Second language acquisition

Publication: Zhang, S., Inoue, T., Cao, G., Li, L., & Georgiou, G. K. (2023). Unpacking the effects of parents on their children’s emergent literacy skills and word reading: Evidence from urban and rural settings in China. Scientific Studies of Reading, 27(4), 355–374. https://doi.org/10.1080/10888438.2023.2169147

Anna Jia jun Zhang (Ph.D.)

Research interests: Children's cognitive development (especially language development & conceptual development), parent-child relationship

Publication: Zhang, J-J., Wong, C. W., Lee, S. W. & Inoue, T. (July 2023). Home literacy environment and early reading development in Chinese–English bilingual children in Hong Kong. Paper presented at the 30th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Reading, Port Douglas, Australia.

Yucan Chen (Ph.D.)

Research interests: Developmental dyslexia (especially for subtypes and brain-based Intervention), Language Acquisition, Chinses sub-lexical processing

Publication:  Chen, Y., Wei, Z., Gou, H., Liu, H., Gao, L., He, X., & Zhang, X. (2022). How far is brain-inspired artificial intelligence away from brain? Frontiers in Neuroscience, 16, Article 1096737. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2022.1096737

Mengge Yan, Ph.D. (Postdoctoral Research Fellow, National Institute of Education, Singapore)