Yawen Yu recently earned her PhD in Education from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). She will begin her Postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of Educational Technology at Peking University in December 2024.

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Yawen Yu (余雅文 in Chinese), a trilingual speaker of Mandarin Chinese (native), English (professional) and Wenzhou dialect (conversational). I am interested in how culture, family practices and personal identity influence language learning, and in understanding the effect of environmental factors on child development.