Contact Information
158a Crc 51 Gerty Dr
1310 S Sixth
M/C 708
Champaign, IL 61820
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
Affiliated Faculty - Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies
Emeritus - Second Language Acquisition and Teacher Education
Recent Publications
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, [102061]. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cedpsych.2022.102061
Anderson, R. C., Shirey, L. L., Wilson, P. T., & Fielding, L. G. (2021). Interestingness of children's reading material. In Conative and Affective Process Analyses (Vol. 3, pp. 287-299). Taylor and Francis.
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
Sun, J., Datu, E., Warchola, G., & Anderson, R. C. (2018). Emergent leadership and its influence on collaborative and individual reasoning. Proceedings of International Conference of the Learning Sciences, ICLS, 2(2018-June), 977-980.