Anglo-American University in Prague Professor Caravolas’s Understanding Literacy Across Languages: Cross-Linguistic Perspectives
Join Professor Marketa Caravolas to learn more about linguistics. During this presentation you will hear about the current understanding for how monolingual and bilingual children learn to read and write in different languages.
Professor Caravolas’s research explores how children learn to read and write across different languages and writing systems. She focuses on the development of literacy and its disorders, combining psycholinguistic and cross-linguistic perspectives to better understand reading and spelling in both typical and dyslexic learners.
Special focus will be directed at the ways in which becoming literate presents a very similar cognitive challenge to all children, regardless of the written language they are learning. However, there are some differences based on the written languages and of the learners’ spoken languages which influence the learning process that you will discover during this talk.
A case will be presented on the basis of findings from a series of direct cross-linguistic comparisons of monolingual school beginners’ literacy skills (the ELDEL project) as well as two recent studies of early literacy in second language settings.
Don’t miss this opportunity to learn about language learning!
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