Research Interests
I currently have two active programs of research. The first is comparative analysis of learning to read alphabetic and nonalphabetic languages, especially English and Chinese. The second examines children's intellectual and social development in the context of free-flowing open-format discussions.
Additional Campus Affiliations
Professor Emeritus, Educational Psychology
Recent Publications
Ma, S., Anderson, R. C., & Sun, J. (2023). Collaborative Reasoning and children's development of language and thought. In R. J. Tierney, F. Rizvi, & K. Ercikan (Eds.), International Encyclopedia of Education (4 ed., pp. 330-336). Elsevier Science. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-818630-5.07124-4
Sun, J., Anderson, R. C., Lin, T. J., Morris, J. A., Miller, B. W., Ma, S., Thi Nguyen-Jahiel, K., & Scott, T. (2022). Children's engagement during collaborative learning and direct instruction through the lens of participant structure. Contemporary Educational Psychology, 69, Article 102061. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cedpsych.2022.102061
Anderson, R. C. (2018). Role of the Reader's Schema in Comprehension, Learning, and Memory. In D. E. Alvermann, N. J. Unrau, M. Sailors, & R. B. Ruddell (Eds.), Theoretical Models and Processes of Literacy (7 ed., pp. 136-145). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315110592-9
Lin, T., Ma, S., Anderson, R. C., Jadallah, M., Sun, J., Morris, J. A., Miller, B. W., & Sallade, R. (2018). Promoting academic talk through Collaborative Reasoning. In R. M. Gillies (Ed.), Promoting Academic Talk in Schools: Global Practices and Perspectives (pp. 12-27). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203728932-2
Morris, J. A., Miller, B. W., Anderson, R. C., Nguyen-Jahiel, K. T., Lin, T. J., Scott, T., Zhang, J., Sun, J., & Ma, S. (2018). Instructional discourse and argumentative writing. International Journal of Educational Research, 90, 234-247. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijer.2018.03.001