The MiNT lab, led by Principal Investigator Dr. Ye Shen, is dedicated to advancing the frontiers of multilingual children's education through innovative research and interdisciplinary collaboration. We are driven by a passion for discovery, and dedicated to pursuing research that not only contributes to the academic discourse but also has practical implications and societal impact.
We are a group of educational scholars on a mission to support multilingual children’s learning and development by contributing to the knowledge base on their language, literacy, academic, and socioemotional development. We broadly focus on early development of culturally and linguistically diverse children and how early development and education may reduce racial and social-class disparities. The bulk of our research uses quantitative-oriented method, such as longitudinal growth curve modeling, structural equation modeling, and regressions. Our award-winning research has been published in top-tier journals and funded by the American Educational Research Association and National Science Foundation, American Psychological Association, and the Language Learning Early Career Research Grant.
Lab News
Lab gathering
Last week, our lab took some time to recharge and connect outside of the research setting with a gathering at Honeymoon Island Beach! 🌊🚣♀️ We enjoyed a relaxing day kayaking along the beautiful coast and sharing lunch together. While advancing our res...
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Dr. Shen's New Research Publication: Supporting Dual Language Learners in Head Start
Now published in the Early Childhood Research Quareterly Journal, used national data from the Head Start program to identify classroom environments that best support Spanish-English Dual Language Learners (DLLs). Key Findings: Three classroom were id... (Link)
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Dr. Shen is awarded the prestigious AERA-NSF Research Grant
Dr. Shen has been awarded the AERA-NSF Research Grant. This grant will expand on her dissertation work examining the roles of reading and math networks of bilingual and monolingual children. (Link)