Dr Yanling Zhou is a developmental psychologist and qualified primary and secondary school teacher. She worked as a language teacher and teacher trainer at primary and secondary schools for over ten years before her reserach career. Her research interests lie in the field of developmental psychology, with an emphasis on the language and literacy development of Chinese and English as both L1 and L2 in typical children and children with learning difficulties at early education settings. Taking special account of factors including underlying mechanisms of literacy acquisition and parental influence, as well as teaching pedagogies of language education.