Today I welcome Dr. HyeJin Hwang to talk about her recently published study on the bidirectional relationship of knowledge and comprehension in monolingual and multilingual readers. In this conversation we talk about different types of knowledge, ways to support knowledge building, the use of informational and narrative texts in the classroom, and frameworks that can help us think about comprehension. Later, I’m joined by my colleague Gina Dignon about practical takeaways.

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Links to articles mentioned in this episode:

Hwang, Cabell, & Joyner (2022): https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10888438.2021.195400

Hwang, Lupo, Cabell, & Wang (2021): https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ytBxun1Uew_QRvNnWWdJkISL_HSm-5tG/view

Hwang (2019): https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1041608019301189 

Reading Research Quarterly article:
https://ila.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/rrq.481 

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About this episode’s guest:

HyeJin Hwang is a President’s Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Educational Psychology at University of Minnesota. She is known for her work in the area of literacy development in K-12 settings, particularly in multilingual students. Specifically she focused on developmental processes of comprehension and content knowledge and instructional approaches to support comprehension and content knowledge. She has authored or co-authored publications that appear in peer-reviewed journals such as Reading Research Quarterly, Scientific Studies of Reading, Learning and Individual Differences, and AERA Open. Her work has been funded by organizations such as American Educational Research Association and American Psychological Association Division 15 Educational Psychology. She received Ph.D. in Literacy, Language, and Culture from University of Michigan.

Special thanks to Scotty Sanders for audio editing this episode. https://www.scottysandersmedia.com/

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