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Prof. Catherine Alexandra McBRIDE-CHANG
Professor
Ph.D., Southern California

Address: Rm 359, Sino Building,
  Department of Psychology,
  The Chinese University of Hong Kong,
  Shatin, New Territories,
  Hong Kong
   
Phone: (852) 3943-6576
Fax: (852) 2603-5019
E-mail: cmcbride at psy.cuhk.edu.hk
Curriculum Vitae:
     

Professor Catherine McBride-Chang received her Ph.D. in developmental psychology in 1994 from the University of Southern California . She has published on a variety of topics in developmental psychology, including parenting, child abuse, peer relations, creativity, and reading development and impairment. The author of approximately 110 peer-reviewed journal articles, she has also edited one book (2003, Praeger) entitled Reading Development in Chinese Children (with Professor H.-C. Chen) and written one book entitled Children’s Literacy Development (2004, Oxford University Press). Catherine McBride-Chang is an Associate Editor of both Developmental Psychology and the Journal of Research in Reading and currently serves on the editorial boards of  the Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, Scientific Studies of Reading, Reading Research Quarterly, Journal of Educational Psychology, and the Educational Researcher. She is also a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science and is Vice President of the Scientific Studies of Reading.

Professor McBride-Chang has two weblinks to her research on reading development. One is on the importance of dialogic reading for early learning in children and the other is on a 10-year plus longitudinal study of language and literacy development in Chinese children in both Hong Kong and Beijing.

Research

Research Interests

Social and cognitive development; language and reading development; parenting and psychosocial outcomes.

Representative Publications

  • Tong, X., Ting, K-T., & McBride-Chang, C. (2011). Shyness and Chinese and English vocabulary skills in Hong Kong kindergartners. Early Education & Development, 22(1), 29-52.
  • McBride-Chang, C., Lam, F., Lam, C., Chan, B., Fong, C. Y.-C., Wong, T. T.-Y., & Wong, S. W.-L. (2011). Early predictors of dyslexia in Chinese children: Familial history of dyslexia, language delay, and cognitive profiles. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 52(2), 204-211.
  • Lin, D., Wong, K. K., & McBride-Chang, C. (2011). Reading motivation and reading comprehension in Chinese and English among bilingual students. Reading and Writing. Advance online publication. doi. 10.1007/s11145-011-9297-8
  • McBride-Chang, C., Zhou, Y., Cho, J.-R., Aram, D., Levin, I. & Tolchinsky, L. (2011). Visual spatial skill: A consequence of learning to read? Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. Advance online publication. doi:10.1016/j.jecp.2010.12.003
  • McBride-Chang, C., Lin, D., Liu, P. D., Aram, D., Levin, I., Cho, J.-R., Shu, H., & Zhong, Y. (2010). The ABCs of Chinese: Maternal mediation of pinyin for Chinese children’s early literacy skills. Reading and Writing. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1007/s11145-010-9270-y
  • McBride-Chang, C., Liu, P. D., Wong, T., Wong, A. & Shu, H. (in press). Specific Reading Difficulties in Chinese, English, or Both: Longitudinal Markers of Phonological Awareness, Morphological Awareness, and RAN in Hong Kong Chinese Children. Journal of Learning Disabilities.

Books

Complete list of Publications

Editorial Boards

  • Associate Editor, Developmental Psychology (2006-present)
  • Associate Editor, Journal of Research in Reading (2009-present)
  • Associate Editor, Reading and Writing (2011-present)
  • Scientific Studies of Reading (2001-present)
  • Child Development Perspectives (2011-present)
  • Annals of Dyslexia (2003-present)
  • Literacy Studies: Perspectives from Cognitive Neurosciences, Linguistics, Psychology, and Education (book series—2004-present)
  • Journal of Experimental Child Psychology (2005-present)
  • Reading Research Quarterly (2006-present)
  • Journal of Educational Psychology (2006-present)
  • Educational Researcher (2009-present)

Teaching

Courses

Current Academic Year

  • PSYC3540 Psychology of Adolescence & Adulthood
  • PSYC6000 Major Psychological Approaches
  • PSYC6300 Writing and Presentation