Xinwu Zhang

Biographic Data

ID4460559
NAMEXinwu Zhang
GIVEN NAMESXinwu
FAMILY NAMEZhang
SIGNATUREZHANG X
AFFILIATIONSNorthwest University
ORCID0000-0002-4574-536X
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS10
TOTAL CITATIONS1
AUTHOR COUNT10
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2022
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX1

  • Education on the cheap and early child development

    Open AccessXinwu Zhang, Xiyuan Jia et al.ARTICLEWorld Development2026References: 7

  • Active vs. passive urbanization

    Qingjiang Ju, Tianli Feng et al.ARTICLEApplied Developmental Science2025

  • A decomposition of the Han-minority achievement gap in rural China

    Open AccessXiyuan Jia, Xinwu Zhang et al.ARTICLESocial Psychology of Education2025References: 5

  • Associations between urbanization and the home language environment

    Open AccessYue Ma, Xinwu Zhang et al.ARTICLEChild Development2024

    In low- and middle-income countries, urbanization has spurred the expansion of peri-urban communities, or urban communities of formerly rural residents with low socioeconomic status. The growth of these communities offers researchers an opportunity to measure the associations between the level of urbanization and the home language environment (HLE) among otherwise similar populations. Data were collected in 2019 using Language Environment Analysi…

  • How does the family environment affect toddlerhood language and cognitive development? Evidence from peri-urban China

    Yue Ma, Lucy Pappas et al.ARTICLEApplied Developmental Science2024

    Research suggests that elements of the family environment may have significant associations with cognitive and language development outcomes. Less is known, however, about the family environment in peri-urban China, where rates of cognitive and language delay in children aged 0-3 years are as high as 51% and 54%, respectively. Using data collected from 81 peri-urban households with toddlers aged 18-24 months in Southwestern China, this study exam…

  • The home language environment and early childhood development

    Xinwu Zhang, Delei Liu et al.ARTICLEApplied Developmental Science2024

    The home language environment is a significant correlate of early childhood development outcomes; however, less is known about this mechanism in rural and peri-urban China where rates of developmental delay are as high as 52%. This study examines associations between the home language environment and child development in a sample of 158 children (58% boys) aged 18–24 months (Mage = 21.5) from rural and peri-urban households in Western China. Resu…

  • Education and EdTech during Covid-19

    Guirong Li, Xinwu Zhang et al.ARTICLEComparative Education Review2023

    In response to the COVID-19 epidemic, many education systems have relied on distance learning and educational technologies to an unprecedented degree. However, rigorous empirical research on the impacts on learning under these conditions is still scarce. We present the first large-scale, quantitative evidence detailing how school closures affected education in China. The data set includes households and teachers of 4,360 rural and urban primary s…

  • The home language environment in rural China

    Open AccessYue Ma, Laura Jonsson et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2023

    In this paper, we present the first ever findings using the LENA system to measure the home language environment of young children from poor rural communities in China. We found that the home language environment of lower-SES household was significantly worse than high-SES households, and demonstrated the importance of the home language environment to language skills, pointing to a need for more high-quality studies of the home language environme…

  • Variations in the home language environment and early language development in a peri-urban community in China

    Open AccessTianli Feng, Xinwu Zhang et al.ARTICLEEarly Childhood Research Quarterly2023Cited by: 1References: 14

  • The impact of nonboarding on the development of disadvantaged boarding students in western rural China

    Open AccessXiyuan Jia, Xinwu Zhang et al.ARTICLEAsia Pacific Education Review2022