Virtual Words in the World International Conference

The Words in the World International Conference began today, and the Reading Lab was well represented: Heather Wild, Gaisha Oralova, Melda Coskun, Nadia Lana, and Kelly Nisbet presented, as well as Reading Lab alumni Bryor Snefjella, Sean McCarron and Daniel Schmidtke. The full conference schedule can be found here.

Reading Lab alum Bryor Snefjella presented Meaning, Megastudies and Missing Data

Heather Wild presented Just how weird is WEIRD literacy and numeracy? A comparative study of 32 countries

Gaisha Oralova presented The chicken or the egg? The timeline for lexical and semantic effects in derived word recognition using simultaneous recording of EEG and eye-tracking

Reading Lab alum Sean McCarron presented Effects of Year of Study on Reading Skills for L1 and L2 Speakers of English

Reading Lab alum Daniel Schmidtke presented A head start in reading ability: the effect of early phonological awareness on change in ESL passage reading behaviour and reading habits

Melda Coskun presented Morphological priming during natural reading of long texts

Nadia Lana presented Learning concrete and abstract novel words in emotional contexts: Evidence from incidental vocabulary learning

Kelly Nisbet presented Factors effecting the Influence of Statistical Learning on Reading Comprehension