简介

Dr. Julie Dwyer is an Assistant Professor in Early Childhood Education. She holds an MEd in Language and Literacy from Harvard University and a PhD in Language, Literacy, and Culture from the University of Michigan. Prior to completing her doctorate, she worked in Chelmsford, Massachusetts for five years as an early intervention reading specialist, providing direct service to struggling kindergarten and first grade readers and consulting with classroom teachers. Her research focuses on early language and literacy learning and teaching, with a particular focus on vocabulary development and the interplay between conceptual knowledge and vocabulary development. Dr. Dwyer has presented at local and national reading and educational research conferences on vocabulary development and instruction in early childhood settings. She has also published in The Reading Teacher, Early Childhood Research Quarterly, Journal of Literacy Research, and Early Childhood Education Journal. Dr. Dwyer is an appointed member of the editorial board for Reading Research Quarterly.