Faculty profile
Xi Chen
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Research
Latest papers
Bullying victimization, language proficiency, and school belonging among Syrian refugee early adolescents in Canada: A cross‐lagged and random‐intercept cross‐lagged panel study
Journal of Research on Adolescence · 2026
The role of age of arrival and language environment factors in Arabic heritage language development: A longitudinal study.
Journal of child language · 2025
Language and literacy learning among Syrian refugee children: A progress report.
Advances in child development and behavior · 2025 · senior author
Latest funding
- $81,802
Toward equity in evaluating Canadian children's reading abilities
SSHRC · 2024 · Co-investigator
- $50,255
De la recherche à la pratique : Mesurer la faisabilité d'utiliser un outil d'observation des fonctions exécutives chez les enfants âgés entre 4 et 6 ans en contexte écologique par différents observateurs qualifiés
SSHRC · 2024 · Co-investigator
- $56,833
The Early Literacy Screening Project: Toward Equity in French Immersion Education
SSHRC · 2024 · Principal investigator
25 publications.
Bullying victimization, language proficiency, and school belonging among Syrian refugee early adolescents in Canada: A cross‐lagged and random‐intercept cross‐lagged panel study
Vitoroulis I, Wang S, Al‐Janaideh R, Corominas AS, Paradis J, Georgiades K, Gottardo A, Chen X, Jenkins J
The role of age of arrival and language environment factors in Arabic heritage language development: A longitudinal study.
Paradis J, Soto-Corominas A, Daskalaki E, Al Janaideh R, Chen X, Gottardo A
Language and literacy learning among Syrian refugee children: A progress report.
Shamim A, Hipfner-Boucher K, Chen X
Do You Use Love to Make it Lovely? The Role of Meaning Overlap across Morphological Relatives in the Development of Morphological Representations.
Quemart P, Wolter JA, Chen X, Deacon SH
Longitudinal predictors of French word reading difficulties among French Immersion children.
MacKay E, Chen X, Deacon SH
A 3-year longitudinal investigation of the overlap and stability of English and French word reading difficulties in French immersion children.
Shakory S, Krenca K, Marinova-Todd SH, Chen X
Steering Micromotors via Reprogrammable Optoelectronic Paths.
Chen X, Chen X, Elsayed M, Edwards H, Liu J, Peng Y, Zhang HP, Zhang S, Wang W, Wheeler AR
The Development of Cognate Awareness in Child Second/Third Language Learners of French in French Immersion: The Effects of Orthographic Overlap and Cognate Status.
Hipfner-Boucher K, Pasquarella A, Prasad S, Chen X
Exploring sources of poor reading comprehension in English language learners.
Li M, Geva E, D'Angelo N, Koh PW, Chen X, Gottardo A
Learning Orthographic and Semantic Representations Simultaneously During Shared Reading.
Shakory S, Chen X, Deacon SH
Toward equity in evaluating Canadian children's reading abilities
Principal investigators: Molnar, Monika
Keywords: word decoding; vocabulary; phonological awareness reading; bilingualism; children; development; developmental norms
De la recherche à la pratique : Mesurer la faisabilité d'utiliser un outil d'observation des fonctions exécutives chez les enfants âgés entre 4 et 6 ans en contexte écologique par différents observateurs qualifiés
Principal investigators: Duval, Stéphanie
Keywords: observation; fonctions exécutives; éducation préscolaire; perspectives; chercheurs; enseignants
The Early Literacy Screening Project: Toward Equity in French Immersion Education
Principal investigators: Chen, Xi
Keywords: Early literacy screening; French immersion; Performance benchmarks; Teacher agency
Digital Data Value Paradox: An Empirical Investigation of Personal Data Valuation
Principal investigators: Birch, Kean
Keywords: personal data; data asset; data value; digital economy
Digital natives: Understanding children's reading in a digital era
Principal investigators: Deacon, S. Hélène
Keywords: reading development; literacy; digital literacy; reading comprehension
Reading Comprehension among Majority and Minority Language Children in French Immersion: The Contribution of Oral Language Skills and Reading Strategies
Principal investigators: Chen, Xi
Keywords: French immersion; reading comprehension; oral language skills; reading strategies; cross-language transfer; minority language children
Literacy Development of Bilingual and Multilingual Children
Principal investigators: Chen, Xi
Keywords: Literacy Bilingualism Multilingualism Equity Oral language Reading Comprehension French Immersion English-Stream Programs Minority Language Children Poor Comprehenders
Reading Comprehension among Majority and Minority Language Children in French Immersion: The Contribution of Oral Language Skills and Reading Strategies
Principal investigators: Chen, Xi
Keywords: French immersion; reading comprehension; oral language skills; reading strategies; cross-language transfer; minority language children
Literacy Development of Bilingual and Multilingual Children
Principal investigators: Chen, Xi
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
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
- Xi Chen and Alexandra Gottardo: 4 shared papers
- Kathy Georgiades and Jennifer Jenkins: 3 shared papers
- Johanne Paradis and Evangelia Daskalaki: 3 shared papers
- Kathy Georgiades and Irene Vitoroulis: 2 shared papers
- Jennifer Jenkins and Irene Vitoroulis: 2 shared papers
- Dorothea Godt and Xi Chen: 2 shared papers
- Johanne Paradis and Xi Chen: 2 shared papers
- Johanne Paradis and Alexandra Gottardo: 2 shared papers
- Kathy Georgiades and Johanne Paradis: 1 shared paper
- Kathy Georgiades and Xi Chen: 1 shared paper
- Kathy Georgiades and Alexandra Gottardo: 1 shared paper
- Jennifer Jenkins and Johanne Paradis: 1 shared paper
- Jennifer Jenkins and Xi Chen: 1 shared paper
- Irene Vitoroulis and Johanne Paradis: 1 shared paper
- Irene Vitoroulis and Xi Chen: 1 shared paper
- Kevin Truong and Xi Chen: 1 shared paper
- Luigi Girolametto and Xi Chen: 1 shared paper
- Xi Chen and Evangelia Daskalaki: 1 shared paper
- Alexandra Gottardo and Evangelia Daskalaki: 1 shared paper
- Bilingual Education, Second Language Education
- Educational Psychology
- Cell and Systems Biology
- Bilingualism and Second Language Learning
- Psychology
- Department of Applied Psychology and Human Development
- Psychiatry & Behavioural Neurosciences
- Other
Co-authors at University of Toronto, colored by department. Thicker lines mean more shared papers; select anyone to open their profile and their own map.
Alexandra Gottardo
Educational Psychology
4 shared papers, latest 2026
Johanne Paradis
Bilingualism and Second Language Learning
2 shared papers, latest 2026
Dorothea Godt
Cell and Systems Biology
2 shared papers, latest 2017
Evangelia Daskalaki
Faculty
1 shared papers, latest 2025
Irene Vitoroulis
Psychology
1 shared papers, latest 2026
Kathy Georgiades
Psychiatry & Behavioural Neurosciences
1 shared papers, latest 2026
Luigi Girolametto
Faculty
1 shared papers, latest 2015
Kevin Truong
Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering, Inst. of (IBBME)
1 shared papers, latest 2010
Jennifer Jenkins
Department of Applied Psychology and Human Development
1 shared papers, latest 2026
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