Psycholinguistics

根据加拿大统计局（2005年）的数据，超过1 500万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。阅读者的认知特征如何影响阅读理解的成败，目前尚不清楚。Kupermans实验室对单词和文本识别的个体差异进行了大规模研究，这些研究在安大略的低识字率年轻人的非临床人群中发现。在拟议的研究计划中，我们将探讨阅读困难的认知和情感层面的原因，并旨在告知目前的成人识字教学和学习的方法。

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.