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Curriculum & Instruction

College of Education and Human Development

Research/Publications

Yan Yan, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor

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Publications

Peer-Reviewed Journal Publications

  • Hood, C., Yan, Y. (2024). “Out of the future that is not yet”: Reading Academies facilitate pre-service teachers’ Science of Teaching Reading principles and cultivate a better first year of teaching. Texas Association for Literacy Education Yearbook, 11, 36-47. 
  • Vargas, N., Yan, Y., Harvey, T., & Borel, D. (2024). Artificial Intelligence in the English Language Arts Classroom: Secondary Teachers’ Lived Experiences Perceptions. National Social Science Technology Journal, 12(1), 69-91. 
  • Yan, Y., Hood, C. (2023). Decoding science of teaching reading (STR) test to “make it impossible” to get questions wrong. Texas Association for Literacy Education Yearbook, 10, 53-58. 
  • Zhao, G., & Yan, Y. (2023). Assistive Technologies to Support English Learners. Washington Association for the Education of Speakers of Other Languages Educator (WAESOL Educator), 48(2), 41-44. 
  • Casey, J., Yan, Y., Arteaga, E., Corkran, K., Watford, M., Godfrey, S., Almaguer, J, Hunley, J. (2023). The name jar: Using literature to assistive technologies to support English learners. The Social Studies Texan, 39(11), 63-65. 
  • Zhang, J., Zhang, H., Relyea J., Wui, G., Yan, Y., Nam, R., Enriquez, A., & Kharabi-Yamato, L. (2022). Orthographic Facilitation in Upper Elementary Students: Does Attention to Morphology of Complex Words Enhance the Effects? Annual of Dyslexia, 1-16.

Book Chapters 

  • Zhang, H., Yan, Y., & Gronseth, S. L. (2020). Adding flexibility to curriculum: A practical guide for student directed assessment. In R. E. Ferdig, E. Baumgartner, R. Hartshorne, R. Kaplan-Rakowski & C. Mouza (Eds.), Teaching, technology, and teacher education during the COVID-19 pandemic: Stories from the field (pp. 113-117). Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE). 

Presentations 

  • Yan, Y., Hood, C., (2024, Jul. 05-07). Pre-service Teachers’ Language Construct Knowledge Affect on Science of Teaching Reading [Presentation/Panel Session]. United Kingdom Literacy Association (UKLA) International Conference 2024. The University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton United Kingdom.
  • Yan, Y., Akkurt, M. (2024, Jun. 28-29). Reframing Resilience for Disadvantaged Children and Youth through Positive Storybook Reading Practices. [Presentation/Panel Session]. International Association for Counselling 2024 Annual Conference. Naples, Italy.
  • Hood, C., Yan, Y. (2024, Mar. 01-02). “Out of the future that is not yet”: Reading Academies facilitate pre-service teachers STR exam and cultivate a better first year of teaching, [Presentation/Panel Session]. Texas Association for Literacy Education (TALE) Annual Meeting. Waco, TX.
  • Hood, C., Yan, Y. (2023, Jul. 06-09). Building Hope through Swift Discourse: Immediate Preservice Teacher Feedback Breaks Down Barriers in an Elementary School, [Presentation/Panel Session]. National Council of Teachers of English - English Language Arts Teacher Educator 2023 Summer Conference. Atlanta, GA.
  • Yan, Y., Hood, C. (2023, Feb. 24-25). Decoding Science of Teaching Reading (STR) Test to “Make It Impossible” to Get Questions Wrong, [Presentation/Workshop Session]. Texas Association for Literacy Education Annual Meeting. Houston, TX.
  • Hood, C., Yan, Y. (2023, Feb. 24-25). If I had known then what I know now: Writing to Learn with proleptic autobiographical writing [Presentation/Workshop Session]. Texas Association for Literacy Education Annual Meeting. Houston, TX.
  • Zhao, G., Yan, Y. (2022, Apr. 28-30). Accessibility Tools to support English Language Learners [Presentation/Workshop Session]. Washington Association for Bilingual Education Annual Meeting. Bellevue, WA.
  • Yan, Y., Zhang, J., & Freiberg, H. J. (2021, Apr. 9-12). Indicators of Linguistically Responsive Teaching in the Coursework of Pre-service Teachers on Second Language Methodology [Poster Session]. AERA (American Educational Research Association) Virtual Annual Meeting. 
  • Xian, X., & Yan, Y. (2020, Apr. 17-21). Empowering Collaboration by Focusing on Community-Based Multicultural Education: An African American Art Teacher Case Study [Roundtable Session]. AERA (American Educational Research Association) Annual Meeting San Francisco, CA (Conference Canceled) 
  • Zhang, J., Zhang, H., Relyea, J. E., Yan, Y., Wui, M. G. L., Nam, R., Enriquez-Andrade, A., Li, X., Anand, N., Kharabi-Yamato, L. (2020, Apr. 17-21). The Role of Orthography and Morphology in Vocabulary Learning Purposes [Roundtable Session]. AERA (American Educational Research Association) Annual Meeting San Francisco, CA. (Conference Canceled) 
  • Yan, Y. (2019). Program and Course Evaluation of Bilingual Education in the Teacher Education Program at a Hispanic-servicing University, Poster Presentation, Organizer: University of Houston 2019-2020 Graduate Research Showcase (GRS), Houston, TX, November 1.
  • Yan, Y., Yi, Y., Zhang, J., Li, H., Wang, J. (2019). Development of Argumentative Writing in Chinese Fourth, Sixth and Eighth Graders: Effects of Different Writing Prompts, Spoken Paper Presentation, Organizer: Twenty-Fifth Annual Meeting SSSR (Society for the Scientific Study of Reading), Toronto, Canada, July 17-20. 
  • Enriquez-Andrade, A., Wui, M. G. L., Zhang, J., Wong, S.S., Yan, Y., Relyea, J. E., Donze, J., Kharabi-Yamato, L, Nam, R. (2019, Apr. 5-9) Teachers’ Use of Spanish and Inquiry-Based Instruction in Bilingual Science Classroom [Roundtable Session]. AERA (American Educational Research Association) Annual Meeting Toronto, Canada. 
  • Yan, Y. (2019). Effects of Different Writing Instructions on the Argumentative Writing of Chinese Elementary and Middle School Students, Poster Presentation, Organizer: University of Houston 2018-2019 Graduate Research Showcase (GRS), Houston, TX, February 11. 
  • Yan, Y. (2019). Effects of Different Writing Instructions on the Argumentative Writing of Chinese Elementary and Middle School Students, 3MT (Three Minute Thesis) Presentation, Organizer: University of Houston 2018-2019 Graduate Research Showcase (GRS), Houston, TX, February 11. 
  • White, C., Hutchison, L., Shields, L. M., Cisneros, F., Vanwright, T., Yan, Y. (2018, Apr. 13-17). Urban Education with an Equity/Social Justice Framework in Ed.D. and Ph.D. Programs at the University of Houston, How Education Across Doctorates and Disciplines Develops Individuals Who Understand and Enact the Dreams, Possibilities, and Necessities of Public Education (Open), Executive Ed.D. in Professional Leadership Faculty Proposal [Invited Session through the Carnegie Project on the Education Doctorate]. AERA (American Educational Research Association) Annual Meeting New York City, NY. 
  • Relyea, J. E., Zhang, J., Wui, M. G. L., Yan, Y., Ho, T-Y. (2018, Apr. 13-17). Direct and Indirect Effects of Home Literacy Environment and Reading Comprehension in Monolinguals and English Learners [Paper Presentation]. AERA (American Educational Research Association) Annual Meeting New York City, NY. 
  • Turchi, L. B., Lee, M. M., Black, M. P., Yan, Y. (2018, Apr. 13-17). Initiating Future Teachers in Reflective Practice and other Professional Attitudes through Design-based Research: Implementations and Lessons Learned in Year One [Paper Presentation]. AERA (American Educational Research Association) Annual Meeting New York City, NY. 
  • Yan, Y. (2018). Design Based Research Applied to the Course of Introduction of Teaching in Year-1, Organizer: AACTE (American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education) 70th Annual Meeting, Baltimore, Maryland, March 1- 3.
  • Yan, Y. (2018). Design Based Research Applied to the Course of Teaching and Teacher Education in the University of Houston, Organizer: US PREP (University-School Partnerships for the Renewal of Educator Preparation) Design Based Research Symposium, Baltimore, Maryland, February 27 - 28. Black, M. P., 
  • Yan, Y. (2017). Using Data to Assess Future Teachers’ Professional Dispositions and Inform Instruction, Organizer: University of Houston 2017 Graduate Research and Scholarship Projects (GRaSP) Poster Presentation, Houston, TX, November 10. 
  • Yan, Y. (2017). Effectively Developing Fluency Strategies of Teaching Shakespeare to ESL Students Poster Presentation of Conference, Organizer: Lilly Conference on Evidence-Based Teaching and Learning Bethesda, Maryland, June 1 - 4, 
  • Yan, Y. (2017, Apr. 26 – May 01). To Teach or Not to Teach: Effectively Developing Fluency Strategies of Teaching Shakespeare to ESL Students in China. Vice Presidential Graduate Student Seminar, Inspiring Curriculum Inquiries into Life in Schools, Communities, and Neighborhoods-Liberating Dissertation Writing. [Pre-conference] AERA Annual Meeting San Antonio, TX. 
  • Yan, Y. (2017, Apr. 26 – May 01). Listen-and-Act Activities for Teaching Shakespeare to ESL Students. International Curriculum Research Graduate Student Seminar. [Pre-conference] AERA Annual Meeting San Antonio, TX. 
  • Yan, Y. (2017, Apr. 26 – May 01). Teaching with Purpose: Strategies of Teaching Shakespeare to ESL Students in China. Soka Studies and Value Creation Curriculum: The Urgency of Non-Western/International/Comparative Curriculum Inquiry. [Pre-conference] AERA Annual Meeting San Antonio, TX. 
  • Yan, Y. (2016). Education 20/20: Innovative Teaching and Learning at a Distance. Conference, Organizer: College of Education, University of Houston, Better understand how people in different regions of the world are implementing massive open online courses (MOOCs) and other forms of open educational resources (OERs), November 04. 
  • Yan, Y. (2016). ESL Flipped Classroom Language Teaching and Learning in China, Texas Language Education Research Conference. The University of Texas at San Antonio, Multilingualism: Developing New Practices, Policies, and Curriculum. February 19-20. 
  • Yan, Y. (2016). “Tips on Writing and Publishing for Doctoral Students” by Dr. Curt Bonk from Indiana University. Workshop, Organizer: College of Education, University of Houston, November 03. 
  • Yan, Y. (2016). Teaching Works Professional Development. Workshop, Organizer: College of Education, University of Houston, October 28. 
  • Yan, Y. (2016). Design-Based Research (DBR) Symposium. Workshop, Organizer: College of Education, University of Houston, September 9-10. 
  • Yan, Y. (2016). AERA Proposal Workshop for CUIN Doctoral Students. Workshop, Organizer: University of Houston, June 27-28. 
  • Yan, Y. (2016). Texas Language Education Research Conference. Conference, Organizer: The University of Texas at San Antonio, Multilingualism: Developing New Practices, Policies, and Curriculum. February 19-20.