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