This presentation examines how home biliteracy environments shape the bilingual vocabulary development of children growing up with Chinese and English in Canada. Drawing on a three-year longitudinal study, the analysis traces receptive vocabulary trajectories across both languages and considers the influence of language background, socioeconomic status, and gender. The talk highlights how everyday family practices, including shared reading, parental input, access to print materials, and digital media use, contribute to vocabulary growth in both English and Chinese. By positioning the home as a critical site of language learning, the study highlights the importance of family literacy practices in fostering bilingual development and offers implications for early literacy interventions, parental engagement, and educational policy in multilingual contexts.
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李国芳（加拿大不列颠哥伦比亚大学）
Dr. Guofang Li is Professor and Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Transnational and Global Perspectives of Language and Literacy Education of Children and Youth at the University of British Columbia. An internationally recognized scholar, she was named a Fellow of the American Educational Research Association (AERA) and received the International Literacy Association’s International Citation of Merit in 2025. Her program of research focuses on bilingualism, digital literacies, technology-supported instruction, and equity-oriented teacher education through longitudinal and cross-cultural studies. Her work has earned numerous honors, including the AERA Early Career Award (2010), Division G Early Career Award (2008), Second Language Research SIG Mid-Career Award (2016), and the Edward Fry Book Award from the Literacy Research Association (2013, 2006). In 2023 and 2024, Stanford University and Elsevier ranked her among the world’s top 2% most-cited researchers in education and the social sciences.
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