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Guofang Li
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Research
Latest papers
Language- and Activity-Specific Associations Between English and Chinese Home Literacy Activities and Receptive Vocabulary Among Chinese-Canadian Children: A Repeated Cross-Sectional Study.
Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026 · first author
Pre-service teachers' knowledge of language and literacy concepts: The skeleton in Canada's closet?
Annals of dyslexia · 2026
The role of home biliteracy environment in Chinese-Canadian children's early bilingual receptive vocabulary development.
Applied linguistics review · 2025 · first author
Latest funding
- $97,508
Between the Bench, the Bar, and the Academy: The Socio-Historical Construction of Law in Africa from the Imperial to the Global Age
SSHRC · 2025 · Co-investigator
- $58,474
Investigating the Relationship between First Language Proficiency and English Reading Comprehension among Multilingual Learners in Upper Elementary Years in BC
SSHRC · 2025 · Principal investigator
- $114,053
Reading Pedagogies of Equity: Networked Literacy Pedagogues as Resources for Academic Reading Praxes in Teacher Education
SSHRC · 2022 · Co-investigator
4 publications.
Language- and Activity-Specific Associations Between English and Chinese Home Literacy Activities and Receptive Vocabulary Among Chinese-Canadian Children: A Repeated Cross-Sectional Study.
Li G, Zhen F
Pre-service teachers' knowledge of language and literacy concepts: The skeleton in Canada's closet?
Georgiou GK, Peyton AR, Antoniuk A, Beach P, Fraser A, Kirby JR, Klein P, Li G, Metsala J, Mousavi A, Nickel J, Savage R, Joshi RM
The role of home biliteracy environment in Chinese-Canadian children's early bilingual receptive vocabulary development.
Li G, Zhen F, Gunderson L
Teacher cognition in teaching intercultural communicative competence: A qualitative study on preservice Chinese language teachers in Hong Kong SAR, China.
Gong YF, Lai C, Gao XA, Li G, Huang Y, Lin L
Between the Bench, the Bar, and the Academy: The Socio-Historical Construction of Law in Africa from the Imperial to the Global Age
Principal investigators: Terretta, Meredith
Keywords: imperialism; decolonization; law; gender; race; legal history; Africa; French Empire; British Empire; post colonialism; post imperialism; Third World Approaches to International Law
Investigating the Relationship between First Language Proficiency and English Reading Comprehension among Multilingual Learners in Upper Elementary Years in BC
Principal investigators: Li, Guofang
Keywords: Bilingualism; biliteracy; reading comprehension; oral language; multilingual learners; upper elementary; literacy gaps
Reading Pedagogies of Equity: Networked Literacy Pedagogues as Resources for Academic Reading Praxes in Teacher Education
Principal investigators: Heydon, Rachel M.
Keywords: academic reading; equity; pedagogies; higher education; literacy; teacher education
Reading Pedagogies of Equity: Networked Literacy Pedagogues as Resources for Academic Reading Praxes in Teacher Education
Principal investigators: Heydon, Rachel M.
Keywords: academic reading; equity; pedagogies; higher education; literacy; teacher education
Transnational/Global Perspectives of Language and Literacy Education of Children and Youth Department of Language and Literacy Education
Principal investigators: Li, Guofang
Transnational/Global Perspectives of Language and Literacy Education of Children and Youth Department of Language and Literacy Education
Principal investigators: Li, Guofang
Keywords: Bi/Multilingualism Teacher Educators Pre-Service Teachers Biliteracy Non-Dominant Children Heritage Language Literacy Pedagogy Cultural Reciprocity In-Service Teachers Equity
Ensuring Full Literacy in a Multicultural and Digital World
Keywords: literacy; reading; language learning; culture; technology; new media; behaviour; neuroimaging; computational modeling; Indigenous; immigrant; Canada's official languages
Ensuring Full Literacy in a Multicultural and Digital World
Keywords: literacy; reading; language learning; culture; technology; new media; behaviour; neuroimaging; computational modeling; Indigenous; immigrant; Canada's official languages
Behind the model minority mask: identifying early factors in cantonese and mandarin-speaking children's divergent literacy and academic trajectories in Canadian schools
Principal investigators: Li, Guofang
Keywords: early factors; literacy achievement gap; academic achievement gap; Chinese immigrant children; model minority stereotype
Supporting Teachers to Work With Culturally, Linguistically, and Racially Diverse Students, Families, and Communities: A Two-Day International Symposium at UBC
Principal investigators: Li, Guofang
Keywords: teacher education; superdiversity; refugee students; parent and community engagement; Indigenous teacher education; pre-service teachers; in-service teachers
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
Frequent collaborators
- Jamie Metsala and Andrea Fraser: 1 shared paper
- Jamie Metsala and Guofang Li: 1 shared paper
- Jamie Metsala and Pamela Beach: 1 shared paper
- Jamie Metsala and Robert Savage: 1 shared paper
- Andrea Fraser and Guofang Li: 1 shared paper
- Andrea Fraser and Pamela Beach: 1 shared paper
- Andrea Fraser and Robert Savage: 1 shared paper
- Guofang Li and Pamela Beach: 1 shared paper
- Guofang Li and Robert Savage: 1 shared paper
- Bilingual Education, Second Language Education
- Educational Psychology
- Other
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