Beinan obtained her Bachelor’s degree of Business Administration in Professional Accountancy, in the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) and she took Psychology as her minor. Her experience in a bilingual community (Hong Kong) motivated her interest in bilingualism.
She started her PhD with Dr Andrea Krott investigating the relationship between bilingualism and cognition. She also worked as a Research Assistant for Prof Sotaro Kita for a year on a research project that investigates home signs produced by deaf children.