Kevin Susanto is a First year DPhil student in Education at St Catherine’s College, supervised by Professor Lars-Erik Malmberg and Professor Sonali Nag. His research explores how differences between languages, particularly Bahasa Indonesia and regional languages like Javanese, may help explain persistent literacy challenges among Indonesian students. Drawing on psycholinguistics, cognitive development, and large-scale educational assessment, his work aims to build a better understanding of how the language children learn in shapes what they achieve. Before Oxford, Kevin has contributed to research and teaching at Tsinghua University and the University of Sydney, with work spanning comparative education, teacher motivation, and sustainability education.
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