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Bing Han

Faculty Member

Dr. Bing Han

Biography

Dr. Bing Han is an Assistant Professor of Elementary Education at Utah Valley University. Her primary teaching focus is on elementary literacy instruction. She is also a LETRS-certified educator.

Dr. Han is a practitioner of global education. Over the course of ten years, she pursued her bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees, dividing her time equally between the US and China. Moreover, she is a certified K-12 teacher in both countries. Prior to joining UVU, Dr. Han gained teaching experience across various educational settings, spanning from K-12 to university levels.

Drawing from her interdisciplinary background in literacy education, linguistics, and educational psychology, Dr. Han's research revolves around investigating the cognitive and linguistic aspects influencing language and literacy development in monolingual and bilingual learners. Additionally, she conducts research on the knowledge of elementary literacy among both pre-service and in-service teachers. Dr. Han maintains an active scholarly agenda publishing and presenting at the national and international levels. Furthermore, she actively contributes to the academic community by serving as a reviewer for journals like Reading and Writing, and Learning and Individual Differences.

Education

PhD, Texas A&M University, College Station, 2022

Major: Curriculum and Instruction, Language and Literacy

Teaching

EDEL 4400

Elementary Literacy Instruction and Assessment I, Spring 2025

EDEL 4410

Elementary Literacy Instruction and Assessment II, Spring 2025

EDEL 4410

Elementary Literacy Instruction and Assessment II, Spring 2025

Presentations

Cantrell, Emily , Joshi, R. Malatesha , Hudson, Alida , Moore, Karol , Han, Bing , Koh, Poh Wee , Society for the Scientific Study of Reading (SSSR) Annual Meeting, "A Systematic Review of US Teacher Knowledge Related to Literacy Concepts.", Society for the Scientific Study of Reading, Virtual. (July, 2021)
Han, Bing , Zhang, Shuai , International Dyslexia Association (IDA), "Error Analyses of Chinese Semantic-Phonetic Compound Character Writing. ", International Dyslexia Association, Virtual. (January, 2021)
Han, Bing , Koh, Poh Wee , Li, Hong , Annual conference at Association for Reading and Writing in Asia (ARWA), "The Role of Morphological Awareness in Vocabulary Depth_ A Longitudinal Investigation at the Word, Character, and Radical Levels.", Reading and Writing in Asia, Beijing, China (Virtual). (September, 2020)
Han, Bing , Koh, Poh Wee , Li, Hong , Zhang, Shuai , Joshi, R. Malatesha , American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual Meeting, "Longitudinal Relations Among Levels of Morphological Awareness and Character Reading in Chinese.", American Educational Research Association, San Francisco, CA, United States (Conference canceled due to COVID-19). (April, 2020)

Scholarly/Creative Works

Li, Miao , Zhang, Shuai , Liu, Yuting , Snow, Catherine , Zhang, Huan , Han, Bing , (2025) "Using Decoding Measures to Identify Reading Difficulties_ A Meta-analysis on English as a First Language Learners and English Language Learners" (Issue: 1, vol. 37). Springer: Educational Psychology Review. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10648-025-09987-1
Han, Bing , Milburn, Trelani F., Koh, Poh Wee , Joshi, R Malatesha , (2023) "Understanding types of Chinese writing-to-dictation errors" . Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003284048-16
Zhang, Shuai , Han, Bing , Hudson, Alida K., Moore, Karol A., Joshi, R. Malatesha , Levie, R. , Bar-On, A. , Ashkenazi, O. , Dattner, E. , Brandes, G. , (2022) "John Effect in literacy acquisition_ The role of morphological awareness in literacy acquisition in different orthographies. In Levie, R., Bar-On, A., Ashkenazi, O., Dattner, E., & Brandes, G. (Eds.). Developing language and literacy (pp. 369-385). " . Springer Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-99891-2_14
Han, Bing , Koh, Poh Wee , Zhang, Shuai , Joshi, R. Malatesha , Li, Hong , (2022) "The Relative Contributions of Facets of Morphological Awareness to Vocabulary Development in Chinese_ A Longitudinal Study in Grades One to Three" (vol. 69). Contemporary Educational Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cedpsych.2022.102063
Zhang, Shuai , Wijekumar, Kausalai , Han, Bing , (2021) "An Analysis of Grade 4 Reading Textbooks Used in Mainland China_ Do the Texts and Activities Support Higher Order Reading Comprehension Skills?" (Issue: 2, vol. 26). Technology, Knowledge and Learning. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10758-021-09504-7
Hudson, Alida K., Moore, Karol A., Han, Bing , Koh, Poh Wee , Cantrell, Emily , Joshi, R. Malatesha , (2021) "Elementary Teachers’ Knowledge of Foundational Literacy Skills_ A Critical Piece of the Puzzle in the Science of Reading" (vol. 56). Reading Research Quarterly. https://doi.org/10.1002/rrq.408