Lulu Song
Associate Professor
Early Childhood Education/Art Education
Location: 2307b James Hall
Phone: 718.951.5000 x3784
Fax: 718.951.4816
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Dr. Lulu Song is an Associate Professor of Early Childhood Education. Her current research focuses on Chinese dual language learners in early childhood education. Her other research interests include language and cognitive development in early childhood, bilingualism/multilingualism, and development in cultural context. She teaches courses on the development of language and literacy in young children and bilingual early childhood education.
Education:
Ph.D., University of Delaware - 2009 (Education)
M.A., University of Delaware - 2006 (Education)
B.A., Tsinghua University (China) - 2002 (English)
Areas of Expertise:
Dual language development in the early years;
Early childhood (bilingual) education;
Cultural influence on parenting and early development;
Cognitive foundations of language development;
Context for learning (e.g., museums).
Books and Publications
Luo, R., Song, L., Chiu, I. (2022). A closer look at the birth order effect on early cognitive and school readiness development in diverse contexts. Frontiers in Psychology, 13:871837. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.871837 (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2022
Song, L., Luo, R., & Liang, E. (2022). Dual language development of Chinese 3- and 4-year-olds: Associations with family context and teachers' language use. Early Education and Development, 33(2), 219-242. DOI: 10.1080/10409289.2020.1865746. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2022
Luo, R., Song, L., Villacis, C., & Santiago-Bonilla, G. (2021). Parental beliefs and knowledge, children's home language experiences, and school readiness: The dual language perspective. Frontiers in Psychology, 12:661208. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.661208 (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2021
Ma, W., Golinkoff, R. M., Song, L., & Hirsh-Pasek, K. (2021). Using verb extension to gauge children's verb meaning construals: The case of Chinese. Frontiers in Psychology, 11:572198. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.572198. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2021
Tamis-LeMonda, C. S., Song, L., & Fletcher, K. K. (2018). Language development (Central topics, 10,000 words). In T. K. Shackelford & V. A. Weekes-Shackelford (Eds.), Encyclopedia of evolutionary psychological science (pp. 1-15). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16999-6_2410-1 (Books and Publications: Book Chapter) 2018
Song, L., Golinkoff, R. M., Stuehling, A., Resnick, I., Mahajan, N., Hirsh-Pasek, K., & Thompson, N. (2017). Parents' and experts' awareness of learning opportunities in children's museum exhibits. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 49, 39-45. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.appdev.2017.01.006 (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2017
Song, L., Pruden, S. M., Golinkoff, R. M., & Hirsh-Pasek, K. Prelinguistic foundations of verb learning: Infants discriminate and categorize dynamic human actions. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. DOI: 10.1016/j.jecp.2016.01.004 (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2016
Song, L., R. Pulverman, C. Infiesta, R.M. Golinkoff and K. Hirsh-Pasek. "Does the owl fly out of the tree or does the owl exit the tree flying? How L2 learners overcome their L1 lexicalization biases." Language Learning and Development. DOI: 10.1080/15475441.2014.989051. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2015
McCabe, A., C.S. Tamis-LeMonda, M.H. Bornstein, C.B. Cates, R.M. Golinkoff, K. Hirsh-Pasek, E. Hoff, Y. Kuchirko, G. Melzi, A. Mendelsohn, M. Paez, L. Song and A. Wishard Guerra (all but two lead authors are alphabetized). "Multilingual Children: Beyond Myths Towards Best Practices." Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD) Policy Report 27.4. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2014
Song, L., E.T. Spier and C.S. Tamis-LeMonda. "Reciprocal Influences Between Maternal Language and Children's Language and Cognitive Development in Low-income Families." Journal of Child Language, 41, 305-326. doi:10.1017/S0305000912000700. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2014
Tamis-LeMonda, C.S., L. Song, R. Luo, Y. Kuchirko and J. Raufman. "Children's Vocabulary Growth in English and Spanish Across Early Development and Associations With School Readiness Skills." Developmental Neuropsychology 39.2: 69-87. DOI: 10.1080/87565641.2013.827198. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2014
Tamis-LeMonda, C.S., R. Luo and L. Song. "Parents' Role in Infants' Language Development and Emergent Literacy." Wellbeing: A Complete Reference Guide. (pp. 91-110) Eds. S. Landry and C. Cooper. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons Inc. DOI: 10.1002/9781118539415.wbwell06 (Books and Publications: Book Chapter) 2014
Tamis-LeMonda, C.S., Y. Kuchirko and L. Song. "Why Is Infant Language Learning Facilitated by Parental Responsiveness?" Current Directions in Psychological Science 23.2: 121-26. DOI: 10.1177/0963721414522813. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2014
Golinkoff, R.M., W. Ma, L. Song and K. Hirsh-Pasek. "Twenty-five Years Using the Intermodal Preferential Looking Paradigm to Study Language Acquisition: What Have We Learned? Perspectives on Psychological Science 8: 316-39. DOI: 10.1177/1745691613484936. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2013
Luo, R., C.S. Tamis-LeMonda and L. Song. "Chinese Parents? Goals and Practices in Early Childhood." Early Childhood Research Quarterly 28: 843-57. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2013
Pulverman, R., L. Song, S. Pruden, R.M. Golinkoff and K. Hirsh-Pasek. "Infants' Attention to Manner and Path: Foundations for Learning Relational Terms." Child Development 1: 241-52. doi:10.1111/cdev.12030. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2013
Tamis-LeMonda, C.S. and L. Song. "Parent-infant Communicative Interactions in Cultural Context." Handbook of Psychology, Volume 6: Developmental Psychology 2nd ed. Eds. R.M. Lerner, E. Easterbrooks and J. Mistry. Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley & Sons Inc. 143-70. (Books and Publications: Book Chapter) 2013
Song, L., C.S. Tamis-LeMonda, H. Yoshikawa, R. Kahana-Kalman and I. Wu. "Language Experiences and Vocabulary Development in Dominican and Mexican Infants Across the First 2 Years." Developmental Psychology 48: 1106-23. doi:10.1037/a0026401. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2012
Tamis-LeMonda, C.S., L. Song, A.S. Leavell, R. Kahana-Kalman and H. Yoshikawa. "Ethnic Differences in Mother-infant Communications Are Associated With Infants' Language and Gesture Skills." Developmental Science 15: 384-97. DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7687.2012.01136.x. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2012
McDonough, C., L. Song, K. Hirsh-Pasek, R.M. Golinkoff and R. Lannon. "An Image Is Worth a Thousand Words: Why Nouns Tend to Dominate Verbs in Early Word Learning." Developmental Science 14: 181-89. doi:10.1111/j.1467-7687.2010.00968.x. (Books and Publications: Article (Peer-reviewed)) 2011
Song, L., T. Nazzi, S. Moukawane, R.M. Golinkoff, A. Stahl, W. Ma, K. Hirsh-Pasek and M.A. Connell. "Sleepy vs. Sleeping: Preschoolers' Sensitivity to Morphological Cues for Adjectives and Verbs in English and French." Proceedings of the 34th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla. (Books and Publications: Article (Other)) 2010
Wong, W., W. Ma, L. Song, D.E. Strober and R.M. Golinkoff. "Whatever Happened to Play?" Review of The Power of Play: How Spontaneous, Imaginative Activities Lead to Happier, Healthier Children, by D. Elkind. Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry 47: 1099-1100. (Books and Publications: Book Review) 2008
Awards, Honors and Fellowships
PSC-CUNY 52 Research Award, "Relating Parents' Knowledge of Dual Language Development and Education (KnDLE) to Parents' Practices and Chinese DLLs' Language Outcomes." $6,000. (Grants and Fellowships) 2021
PSC-CUNY 51 Research Award, "How Do Early Childhood Teachers Support Chinese Dual Language Learners' Development of Math Knowledge and Skills?" Principal Investigator, $6,000. (Grants and Fellowships) 2020
PSC-CUNY 49 Research Award, "From Preschool to Elementary School: A Follow-up Study of Chinese Children's Dual Language Development and Its Association with Academic Achievement," $6,000. (Grants and Fellowships) 2018
Spencer Foundation Small Grant, "Promoting Chinese Dual Language Learners' Language and Pre-academic Skills: Role of Early Childhood Teachers' Knowledge and Practices." Principal Investigator. $50,000 (Grants and Fellowships) 2018
Subrecipient and Launch Group Member, NICHD, R01-HD-094830, 2018-2023, (with PI Karen Adolph, co-PIs Catherine Tamis-LeMonda & Rick Gilmore), Play & Learning Across a Year (PLAY), $8,867. (Grants and Fellowships) 2018
PSC-CUNY 48 Research Award, "Promoting Chinese Dual Language Learners? Language Skills: Role of Early Childhood Teachers' Practices." Principal Investigator, $6,000. (Grants and Fellowships) 2017
Crow Professorship, "Promoting Chinese Dual Language Learners? Development: Role of Teachers' Knowledge and Practices and Home Environment," $10,000. (Grants and Fellowships) 2016
PSC-CUNY 46 Research Award, for "Linguistic Cues Available to Children to Learn Adjectives and Verbs: A Corpus Analysis of English and French Child-Directed Speech." Principal investigator. $3,499. (Grants and Fellowships) 2015
PSC-CUNY 45 Research Award, for "Dual Language Development of Language-Minority Children in the First Eight Months in Preschool: A Pilot Study." Principal investigator. $6,000. (Grants and Fellowships) 2014
PSC-CUNY 44 Research Award, for "A Micro-level, Ecological Analysis of Bilingual Children's Early Vocabulary." Principal investigator. $3,500. (Grants and Fellowships) 2013
Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD) Early Career Travel Award, for attending the SRCD Biennial Meeting, Seattle, April. (Awards and Honors) 2013
William Stewart Travel Award, for attending the SRCD Biennial Meeting, Seattle, April. (Awards and Honors) 2013
Society for Research in Child Development Strategic Plan Conference Grant, for "Infants' Learning of Multiple Languages: Development in Cultural Context." L. Song and Catherine S. Tamis-LeMonda (New York University), co-principal investigators. $20,000. (Grants and Fellowships) 2011
Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums
Luo, R., Song, L., & Chiu, I. (2022, July). A closer look at the older sibling effect on early cognitive and school readiness development in diverse contexts. Paper presented at the International Congress of Infant Studies (ICIS). Ottawa, Canada. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2022
Gonzalez, S., Song, L., Tamis-LeMonda, C. S., & Perricone, J. (2021, April). Longitudinal analysis of Mexican, Dominican and African-American mothers' and children's manner and path verb use. Poster presentation at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development (virtual). (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2021
Liang, E., Song, L., Sheng, L., Ye, M., Wong, D., Lao., Y., & Wang, D. (2021, April; Did not present due to financial constraints). "Relating Language Richness at Home to Chinese Dual Language Learners' Receptive Vocabulary and Language Comprehension." Paper presentation at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association (virtual). (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2021
Luo, R., Villacis, C., Boccella, V., Song, L., & Santiago-Bonilla, G. (2021, April). What do parents know about dual language development? Parental knowledge in relation to demographic factors and home dual language environment. In D. Avelar & R. M. Golinkoff (Chairs), Exploring the complex nature of shared reading interactions in Latinx families. Symposium at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development (virtual). (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2021
Song, L., Sheng, L., Liang, E., Ye, M., Wong, S., Wang, D., Luo, R., McFadden, K., & Lao, Y. (2021, April). Language richness at home and teachers' knowledge are related to dual language learners' language skills. Poster presentation at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development (virtual). (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2021
Language Screening and Assessment for Monolingual and Bilingual Mandarin-Speaking Children - Asian Pacific Islander Speech-Language-Hearing Caucus Speaker Series, with Li Sheng, Boji P Lam, Pumpi L Su, Yao Du, & Danyang Wang, Webinar, 2020. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2020
Luo, R., Villacis, C., Boccella, V., Song, L., Santiago-Bonilla, G., & Magana, B. (2020, July - Cancelled due to COVID-19). Parents' knowledge about dual language development: Associations with socioeconomic status and home dual language environment. Oral presentation at the International Association for the Study of Child Language (IASCL). Philadelphia, PA. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2020
Song, L., Baldi, M., Liang, E., & Luo, R. (2020, April - Conference cancelled due to COVID-19). Status, Needs, and Challenges: A Questionnaire for Early Childhood Teachers of Chinese Dual Language Learners. Poster presentation at the American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2020
Song, L., Baldi, M., Liang, E., & Luo, R. (2020, July - Conference cancelled due to COVID-19). How Are Early Childhood Teachers Equipped to Support Dual Language Learners? In V. Rydland (Chair), Working with teachers to enrich children's language support in ECEC settings. Symposium at the Society for the Scientific Study of Reading, Newport Beach, CA. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2020
Song, L., Sheng, L., Liang, E., Wang, D., Ye, M., Wong, S., & Lao, Y. (2020, July - Conference cancelled due to COVID-19). Chinese Dual Language Learners' Receptive Vocabulary, Grammatical Knowledge, and Family Language Context. Poster presentation at the International Association for the Study of Child Language (IASCL). Philadelphia, PA. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2020
Song, L., Sheng, L., Liang, E., Wang, D., Ye, M., Wong, S., Lao, Y., Luo, R., & McFadden, K. (2020, December; Virtual; Did not present due to time conflict). Dual Language Learners' Vocabulary and Sentence Comprehension Skills and Their Relations to Family Language Context and Teachers' Knowledge. Poster presentation at ACF's National Research Conference on Early Childhood (NRCEC). (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2020
McFadden, K. E., Pace Miles, K., Lauterbach, M., Song, L. & Shannon, J. D. (2018, June). Associations between language instruction in kindergarten and English Language Learners' reading growth: Are ESL services beneficial for children's literacy skills? Poster to be presented at Poster presented at the Administration for Children and Families National Research Conference on Early Childhood, Washington, D.C. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2018
Song, L., Liang, E., & Luo, R. (April, 2018). Dual language development, teachers' language use, and family context in preschool and pre-kindergarten. In B. R. Beatty (Chair), Cultural studies in early childhood education and care. Paper session at the American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual Meeting, New York, NY. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2018
Song, L., Liang, E., Cristofaro, T., Gerena, E., Hu, D., & Impastato, C. (July, 2016). Chinese preschoolers' dual language development: Associations to language environments at home and school. Poster presented at the Administration for Children and Families' (ACF) National Research Conference on Early Childhood, Washington, DC. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2016
Song, L., Nazzi, T., Moukawane, S., Golinkoff, R. M., Stahl, A., Ma, W., & Hirsh-Pasek, K. "Preschoolers use morphological and syntactic cues in adjective and verb learning in English and French." Paper presented at the Workshop on the Acquisition of Adjectives across Languages, Utrecht, the Netherlands, November. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2013
Song, L., Tamis-LeMonda, C.S., Kuchirko, Y., Luo, R., and Raufman, J. "Children's Vocabulary Growth in English and Spanish Across Early Development and Associations With School Readiness Skills." Multi-level Approaches to Dual Language Development Symposium (L. Song, chair). Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development. Seattle, April. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2013
Tamis-LeMonda, C.S., L. Tafuro, Y. Kuchirko, L. Song and R. Kahana-Kalman. "Mothers' Responsiveness and Child Development: A Focus on Mother-infant Interactions in Low-income, Ethnically Diverse Families." The Value of Micro-Analysis of Parent-Infant Interactions to Understanding Development in At-Risk Populations Symposium (J. Northrup, chair). Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development. Seattle, April. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2013
Tamis-LeMonda, C.S., Y. Kuchirko, L. Tafuro, L. Song, L. Karasik, R. Kahana-Kalman and K. Adolph. "Why Might Contingent Maternal Responsiveness Predict Infant Language Development." Linking Maternal Responsiveness With Language Development Symposium. Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Seattle, April. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2013
Wojcik, E.H., G. Hollich, R. Barr, L. Smith and L. Song. "The Role of Context in Language Development" roundtable. Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development. Seattle, April. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2013
Professional Leadership
Invited Content Development Consultant for revising and reimagining the California Preschool Learning Foundations (English Language Development; 2022) (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2022
Invited member of the NYCDOE 0-3 EMLLs Advisory Group (2021-2022): A survey I developed for a study of mine was adapted and used for the 3-K Bilingual Learning Lab ("A year for the DECE to learn promising practices in bilingual education for 3-year-olds from classrooms that are self-designating as "3-K Dual Language" or are providing bilingual instruction") (Professional Leadership: Committee Service) 2022
Community Activities
Co-author of an Open Letter to NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio and Chancellor of the New York City Department of Education Meisha Porter, calling to include Asian American History in public school curriculum, celebrate Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders Heritage Month in schools, and teach students strategies to cope with and confront racism and discrimination against Asian Americans. April 2021. Letter received over 2,800 signatures. 2021
Other Professional Activities
Co-organizer (with Dr. Xia Li) and co-moderator (with Dr. Norman Eng) of Asian American and Pacific Islanders Heritage Month event, A Path Forward to Unity and Diversity: AAPI History in School Curriculum. Invited speakers are John Liu (New York State Senator), Joseph Schmidt (Senior Instructional Specialist, Department of Social Studies of NYCDOE), Ying Lu (Associate Professor of Associate Professor of Applied Statistics, Social Science, and Humanities, NYU and Board Member of Make Us Visible NJ), and Mikayla Lin (Stuyvesant High School sophomore and founder of Read Nation). Event recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GKwC26FAvI&t=3302s; Brooklyn College News: http://www.brooklyn.cuny.edu/web/news/bcnews/bcnews_220519a.php; BK Educators Encouraged By City's Plan to Pilot AAPI History Curriculum in Schools (https://bkreader.com/2022/06/01/bk-educators-encouraged-by-citys-plan-to-pilot-aapi-history-curriculum-in-schools/), by Jessy Edwards, June 1, 2022. 2022
