Psycholinguistics

根据加拿大统计局（2005年），超过1500万加拿大人无法达到在工作和日常生活中取得成功所必需的阅读水平。关于读者的认知特征如何影响阅读理解的成败，人们知之甚少。库伯曼斯实验室对单词和文本识别的个体差异进行了大规模研究，并在安大略省一个未被充分研究的非临床低识字率年轻人群体中发现了这一点。在本研究计划中，我们将从认知和情感两个层面探讨阅读困难的原因，旨在为当前成人识字教学提供参考。

According to Statistics Canada (2005), over 15 million Canadians are unable to read at a level necessary to be successful at work and in day-to-day life. Little is known about how cognitive characteristics of readers affect success or failure of reading comprehension. Kupermans laboratory conducts large-scale studies on individual variability in word and text recognition, as found in an understudied non-clinical population of low-literacy young adults in Ontario. In the proposed research program, we will explore causes of reading difficulty at the levels of cognition and emotion, and aim to inform current methods of adult literacy teaching and learning.