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Jialin Lai

Assistant Professor

Jialin Lai

Assistant Professor

Academic Appointment(s)

College of Education and Human Development
Department of Teaching and Leading

  • JILAI@augusta.edu
  • UH 375

Education

  • CERG, Educational Evaluation and Res Texas A&M University, 2025

  • Ph.D., Curriculum and Instruction Texas A&M University, 2025

  • MA, Applied Linguistics Sun Yat-sen University, 2020

  • BA, English Language and Literatur Sun Yat-sen University, 2018

Courses Taught Most Recent Academic Year

  • EDTD 5274

    Introduction to Literacy

  • ELED 4313

    Literacy II: Adv. Inst. EE

Teaching Interests

Literacy foundations for early elementary learners, English as a second language, assessments and instruction in literacy, languages and orthographies, reading and writing difficulties, research methods in education

Scholarship

Selected Recent Publications

  • Parental Mindset and SES: Mitigating Income–Vocabulary Gap in Early Childhood of Emergent Bilinguals, 2025
    Journal Article, Academic Journal
  • Investigating Parental Beliefs and Home Literacy Environment on Chinese Kindergarteners’ English Literacy and Language Skills, 2024
    Journal Article, Academic Journal
  • The relationship between autism traits and listening comprehension among Chinese preschool children with autism spectrum disorder, 2023
    Journal Article, Academic Journal

Research Interests

reading and writing development, bilingualism and biliteracy development, early childhood education, orthographies and writing systems, reading difficulties & dyslexia in global languages, autism spectrum disorder