LCNL researcher Elise Hopman will give a talk at Dr. Abdellah Fourtassi‘s Computational Communication & Development team seminar on November 5th, 2021 at 4 pm CET / 9 am CST. Anyone is welcome to join via zoom (send an email to info@cocodev.fr for the zoom link), and video & slides will be…
Together with researchers Valérie Keppenne and Carrie Jackson from Penn State’s German department, LCNL’s Elise Hopman published an article today in Applied Psycholinguistics. The article presents an extensive follow-up to an earlier paper from our lab showing, in an artificial language, that production training improves grammar learning compared to comprehension…
LNCL researchers Maryellen MacDonald and Elise Hopman gave a zoom-talk today at Duolingo’s research colloquium titled “How language production exercises improve foreign language learning”. Duolingo is a popular foreign language learning app, that both Maryellen and Elise have used themselves to brush up respectively their French and Spanish. Maryellen and Elise will also be…
LCNL researchers Mark Seidenberg and Matt Cooper Borkenhagen along with Devin Kearns at UConn have a new paper, titled, “Lost in Translation? Challenges in Connecting Reading Science and Educational Practice”. In the paper they ask how much of what we’ve learned from the “science of reading” is useful to teachers? Abstract Can the…
Together with current and former members from the Austerweil Computational Cognitive Science lab, LCNL researcher Elise Hopman published a new paper today in PLoS ONE looking at the relationship between bilingualism and creativity . Abstract Are bilinguals more creative than monolinguals? Some prior research suggests bilinguals are more creative because the knowledge…
Are you looking for a fun way to incorporate science into homeschooling your children during this pandemic? If so, here’s a suggestion: LCNL researchers Charles Rojas, Elise Hopman, and Maryellen MacDonald published an article today explaining their language learning research to kids. Their article, “How can you get better at learning…
Mark Seidenberg is in the Wisconsin State Journal article “Phonics in focus: Advocates push Wisconsin for ‘science of reading’”. Recently, the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction endorsed explicit phonics instruction for teaching reading. This WSJ article focuses on literacy rates in Wisconsin, skepticism toward the science of reading among educators,…
Mark Seidenberg is featured in the New York Times article “An Old and Contested Solution to Boost Reading Scores: Phonics”. The article opens with remarks on the alarming current decline in literacy rates in the United States. Seidenberg explains that the scientific study of reading yields remarkably conclusive evidence for…
LCNL student Mark Koranda created a student organization, “Skilled Reflection,” designed to use language and writing as a tool for self-exploration and reflection. Mark designs meetings with concrete, grounded writing prompts, encouraging members to use real-time quiet journaling. The purpose is ultimately to help students find answers to questions about…
Mark Seidenberg talks with Kate Archer Kent on Wisconsin Public Radio about Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction’s recent announcement to endorse ‘explicit phonics instruction’ in schools. Dr. Seidenberg discusses why explicit phonics instruction is crucial and weighs in more broadly on literacy and the complicated nature of implementing explicit phonics…
