{"id":365,"date":"2020-07-09T16:56:57","date_gmt":"2020-07-09T16:56:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/rufan-luo\/?page_id=365"},"modified":"2022-04-14T16:24:50","modified_gmt":"2022-04-14T16:24:50","slug":"research","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/rufan-luo\/research\/","title":{"rendered":"Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About the Early Learning and Development Lab<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Lab director:<\/strong> Dr. Rufan Luo<\/p>\n<p><strong>Focus:<\/strong> In the Early Learning and Development Lab, we work with young children, families, and teachers from diverse backgrounds. Our research focuses on language and cognitive development, language interaction, home learning environment, and sociocultural and ecological contexts. We also conduct applied work through developing community-based, early language interventions and language assessment tools.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Getting involved: <\/strong>If you are interested in working in the lab, please contact Dr. Rufan Luo at <a href=\"mailto:rufan.luo@rutgers.edu\">rufan.luo@rutgers.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2>Research Areas and Selected Publications<\/h2>\n<h4>Early home learning environment in sociocultural context<\/h4>\n<p>Each family is different. What are the sources of variation in early home learning environment? How do parents support their children\u2019s learning in culture-specific ways? I conduct indigenous and cross-cultural studies to answer these questions through a sociocultural and ecological lens.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Luo, R., Tamis-LeMonda, C. S, &amp; Mendelsohn A. (2020).\u00a0Predictors and consequences of children\u2019s literacy experiences in low-income families: The contents of books matter. <em>Reading Research Quarterly, 55<\/em>(2): 213-234.<\/li>\n<li>Luo, R. &amp; Tamis-LeMonda, C. S. (2019).\u00a0Preschool book-sharing and oral storytelling experiences in ethnically diverse, low-income families. <em>Early Child Development and Care. 189<\/em>(10), 1602-1619<\/li>\n<li>Luo, R., Tamis-LeMonda, C. S., Kuchirko, Y., Ng, F. F., &amp; Liang, E. (2014).\u00a0Mother-child book-sharing and children\u2019s storytelling skills in ethnically diverse, low-income families.\u00a0<em>Infant and Child Development, 23<\/em>(4), 402-425.<\/li>\n<li>Luo, R., Tamis-LeMonda, C. S., &amp; Song, L. (2013).\u00a0Chinese parents\u2019 goals and practices in early childhood. <em>Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 28<\/em>, 843-857.<strong style=\"font-size: 1rem\">\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Early home learning experiences predicting later school-related skills<\/h4>\n<p>A key aim of my work is to understand ways to best support children\u2019s language and academic development in the home context. I examine children\u2019s early home learning environments (i.e., learning materials, learning activities, and quality of parent-child interactions) in relation to early language skills, school readiness, and academic achievement.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Luo, R., Masek, L. R.*, Alper, R. M., &amp; Hirsh-Pasek, K. (2022). Maternal question use and child language outcomes: The moderating role of children\u2019s vocabulary skills and socioeconomic status. <em>Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 59<\/em>(2), 109-120.<\/li>\n<li>Levine, D.,\u00a0Pace, A., Luo, R., Hirsh-Pasek, K., Golinkoff, R. M., de Villiers, J., Iglesias, A., &amp; Wilson, M. S. (2020).\u00a0Evaluating socioeconomic gaps in preschoolers\u2019 vocabulary, syntax, and language process skills with the Quick Interactive Language Screener (QUILS).\u00a0Early <em>Early Childhood Research Quarterly<\/em>, <em>50<\/em>: 114-128.<\/li>\n<li>Tamis-LeMonda, C. S., Luo, R., Bandel, E., Vallontton, C., &amp; McFadden, K. (2019).\u00a0Early home learning environment predicts children\u2019s 5th grade academic skills.\u00a0<em>Applied Developmental Science, 23<\/em>(2), 153-169.<\/li>\n<li>Pace, A, Luo, R., Hirsh-Pasek, K., &amp; Golinkoff, R. (2017).\u00a0Identifying pathways between socioeconomic status and language development.\u00a0<em>Annual Review of Linguistics, 3<\/em>(1), 285-308.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Dual language learners<\/h4>\n<p>Dual language learners are children who are exposed to more than one language early on. Does knowledge in one language help children learn the other language? Do parents change their dual language input as children transition from home to school? How does children\u2019s home language environment relate to their learning in the classroom? I work with Spanish-English and Chinese-English dual language learners to answer these questions.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Luo, R., Song, L., Villacis,*, &amp; Santiago-Bonilla, G. (2021). Parental beliefs and knowledge, parenting practices, and child school readiness: The dual language perspective. <em>Frontiers in Psychology. doi:org\/10.3389\/fpsyg.2021.661208<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Luo, R., Pace A., Levine, D.*, Golinkoff, R. M., de Villiers J., Hirsh-Pasek K., Iglesias A., &amp; Wilson, M. S. (2021). Home literacy environment and existing knowledge mediate the link between socioeconomic status and language learning skills in dual language learners. <em>Early Childhood Research Quarterly,<\/em> <em>55<\/em>(2): 1-14.<\/li>\n<li>Pace A., Luo, R. (co-first author), Golinkoff, R. M., de Villiers J., Hirsh-Pasek K., Iglesias A., &amp; Wilson, M. S. (2021). Within and Across Language Predictors of Word Learning Processes in Dual Language Learners. <em>Child Development. 92<\/em>(1): 35-53.<\/li>\n<li>Luo, R., Escobar, K., &amp; Tamis-LeMonda, C. S. (2020). Heterogeneity in the trajectories of US Latine mothers\u2019 dual-language input from infancy to preschool. <em>First Language, 40<\/em>(3): 275-299<\/li>\n<li>Tamis-LeMonda, C. S., Song, L., Luo, R., Kuchirko, Y., Kahana-Kalman, R., Yoshikawa, H., &amp; Raufman, J. (2014).\u00a0Children\u2019s language growth in Spanish and English across early development: Associations to school readiness. <em>Developmental Neuropsychology, 39<\/em>(2), 69-87.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Early language intervention: The Duet project<\/h4>\n<p>My colleagues at Temple University (Drs. Rebecca Alper and Kathy Hirsh-Pasek) and I developed an early language intervention, called The Duet Project, to improve the quality of parent-child interaction in high-risk families. The Duet project bridges rigorous science with culturally sensitive, community-based practice using Community-Based, Participatory Research (CBPR). We have received a new grant from the William Penn Foundation to develop Duet 2.0, which will support families from diverse linguistic backgrounds through a light touch, public health model.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Luo, R., Alper, R.(co-first author), Hirsh-Pasek, K., Mogul, M., Chen, Y.*, Masek, L.*, Paterson S., Pace, A., Adamson, L., Bakeman, R., Golinkoff, R., &amp; Owen, M. (2019). Community-based, caregiver-implemented early language intervention in high-risk families: Lessons learned. <em>Progress in Community Health Partnerships: Research, Education, and Action, 13<\/em>(3), 283-291.<\/li>\n<li>Rumper, B., Alper, R., Jaen, J., Masek, L.*, Luo, R., Blinkoff, E.*, Mogul, M., Golinkoff, R., Hirsh-Pasek, K. (2021). Beyond translation: Caregiver collaboration in adapting an early language intervention. <em>Frontiers in Education. <\/em>doi:org\/10.3389\/feduc.2021.660166<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About the Early Learning and Development Lab Lab director: Dr. Rufan Luo Focus: In the Early Learning and Development Lab, we work with young children, families, and teachers from diverse &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/rufan-luo\/research\/\" class=\"\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-365","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Research - Rufan Luo<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/rufan-luo\/research\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Research - Rufan Luo\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"About the Early Learning and Development Lab Lab director: Dr. Rufan Luo Focus: In the Early Learning and Development Lab, we work with young children, families, and teachers from diverse &hellip; 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