Dr. Sun Baoqi
Deputy Director (Academic), Research Management, Education Research Funding Programme Office, and
Senior Research Scientist, Centre for Research in Child Development, Office for Research,
National Institute of Education
Dr Sun Baoqi's research encompasses socio-cultural-cognitive and policy perspectives on language learning with particular focus on children’s bilingual education and biliteracy development. Within these broad perspectives, her research address three main issues: What are the underlying social, cognitive and linguistic factors for biliteracy development? How literacy instructional approaches can provide advancements or constraints in learning to read two languages? How do bi/multilingual community and school contexts influence and interact with home context to support bilingual learners? To address these research issues, she has examined bilingual home and school contexts in Singapore on topic of metalinguistic awareness, home literacy practices, leisure reading, and family language policy.