Ye Shen holds a Ph.D. in Education from the University of Delaware, where she was an AERA-NSF Dissertation Fellow. As a globally oriented scholar, Dr. Shen conducts rigorous empirical research with the goal of influencing policy and informing language teaching and learning in diverse educational and community contexts. Her work is grounded in an asset-based, additive view of bilingualism and linguistic diversity, recognizing students’ cultural and linguistic assets as fundamental strengths. Through quantitative studies utilizing behavioral and neuroimaging measures, she aims to understand the complex and multifaceted processes underlying multilingual language, school readiness, and academic development. She is particularly interested in exploring how children’s linguistic, cognitive, and environmental factors interactively shape their trajectories as multilinguals.
