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Ed.D., Harvard Graduate School of Education, (2021)
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Ziyun Deng is the Dean’s Global Education Postdoctoral Fellow at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Her work focuses on the language skills that adolescents and young adults utilize in response to controversies and dilemmas, particularly in cross-cultural and cross-linguistic contexts. She has developed novel instruments to examine the lexical, grammatical, and discourse complexity of adolescents’ argumentative writing. Her recent work has been published in journals such as Assessing Writing, Journal of Literacy Research, etc. and has been awarded by the Yidan Foundation and AERA. Deng graduated with a B.A. in English language and literature from Peking University in China and worked as an elementary school teacher. She currently serves as a faculty advisor for the Human Development and Education program at HGSE.