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SUMMARY:Becoming a skilled comprehender: causes and consequences - Dr Kate
  Cain\, Department of Psychology\, University of Lancaster
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CONTACT:Louise White
DESCRIPTION:The product of successful reading comprehension is a coherent 
 and integrated representation of the state of affairs described in the tex
 t\, referred to as a mental model or situation model. The process of compr
 ehension involves representations at multiple levels: word\, sentence\, an
 d text\, and the integration of information from the word level through to
  our general knowledge about the world. I will present longitudinal resear
 ch that identifies a critical role for discourse processing skills in the 
 development of young readers’ ability to construct this mental represent
 ation. I will also examine the consequences of good reading comprehension 
 for other aspects of language development\, specifically vocabulary and mo
 rphological knowledge.\n\nBrief Biography\nI studied Experimental Psycholo
 gy at the University of Sussex (1986-1989) and stayed on for my DPhil (199
 2-1995\, supervised by Jane Oakhill) on children’s reading comprehension
  difficulties\, after a brief foray into adults’ anaphoric processing. A
 fter lectureships at the universities of Nottingham and Essex\, I moved to
  Lancaster in 2005\, where I am currently Reader in the Department of Psyc
 hology. I am the incoming editor of the journal Scientific Studies of Read
 ing and author of Reading Development and Difficulties\, published by Wile
 y-Blackwell in 2010. \n\n\n\n
LOCATION:Ground Floor Lecture Theatre\, Department of Experimental Psychol
 ogy
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