Caravolas, M., Lervåg, A., Mousikou, P., Efrim, C., Litavský, M., Onochie-Quintanilla, E., Salas, N., Schöffelová, M., Defior, S.,Mikulajová, M., Seidlová-Málková, G., & Hulme, C. (in press). Common patterns of prediction of literacy development in different alphabetic orthographies. Psychological Science.
This first major output of the Marie Curie funded ELDEL project reports a large-scale, longitudinal study carried out simultaneously in four languages. The main novel finding of the paper reveals that the key cognitive factors that drive early literacy development are essentially identical across languages with alphabetic orthographies, regardless of the complexity of the orthography.
Marína Mikulajová presented ' Best Practice - Eldel Project', at the SASAR (Slovak Association for Science and Applicated Research) Conference at Comenius University, Bratislava, 7th December 2011. The conference was opened by the Minister of Education, Eugen Jurzyca.
Can Oral Language Skills be trained at Nursery Age? Haley, A., Fricke, S., Snowling, M. & Hulme, C. Department of Psychology, University of York. Presented by Ally Haley at the First Eldel International Conference on Reading, Spelling and Writing Development, Hilton Prague Hotel, 4-5th June 2011.
“Metodika rozvoje jazykových schopností podle D.B.Elkonina” [The method for the development of language skills according to D B Elkonin]. Marína Mikulajová, Pedagogická fakulta, Univerzita Komenského v Bratislave. Presented at the First Eldel International Conference on Reading, Spelling and Writing Development, Hilton Prague Hotel, 4-5th June 2011.
Oral sentence comprehension in Slovak-speaking children with dyslexia, SLI and typically developing children. Marková, J. & Mikulajová, M. Department of Communication Disorders, Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovak Republic. Presented by Jana Marková at the First Eldel International Conference on Reading, Spelling and Writing Development, Hilton Prague Hotel, 4-5th June 2011.
Pre-literacy Skills in Slovak Speaking Pre-schoolers with and without Language Impairment. Franke, H.; Mikulajová, M.; Snowling, M.; Jagerčíková, Z. Presented by Helena Franke at the First Eldel International Conference on Reading, Spelling and Writing Development, Hilton Prague Hotel, 4-5th June 2011.
Profiles of Slovak „dyslexic“ children from the perspective of their reading skills. Velecká, A. & Mikulajová, M. Department of Communication Disorders, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovak Republic. Presented by Alena Velecká at the First Eldel International Conference on Reading, Spelling and Writing Development, Hilton Prague Hotel, 4-5th June 2011.
Rapid Automatised Naming and Phonological Awareness: Contributions to reading fluency in Spanish. *Onochie, E., *Simpson, I., **Caravolas, M.& *Sylvia Defior Citoler, S. *University of Granada; **Bangor University. Presented by Eduardo Onochie at the First Eldel International Conference on Reading, Spelling and Writing Development, Hilton Prague Hotel, 4-5th June 2011.
Statistical Learning of Novel Graphotactics : Evidence from an English-speaking adult population. Samara, A. & Caravolas, M. School of Psychology, Bangor University. Presented by Anna Samara at The First Eldel International Conference on Reading, Spelling and Writing Development, Hilton Prague Hotel, 4-5th June 2011.
Subtypes of language impairment based on Slovak sample of preschoolers. Mikulajová, M., Miklošová, I. & Franke, H. Department of Communication Disorders, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovak Republic. Presented by Marina Mikulajová at the First Eldel International Conference on Reading, Spelling and Writing Development, Hilton Prague Hotel, 4-5th June 2011.
Európsky projekt ELDEL na poli slovenskej logopédie. (The European project ELDEL in the field of Slovak speech and language pathology.) - useful link on the Slovak Therapy Association Website
Dyslexie v rodine a její rizika pro vyvoj dítete (Dyslexia in the Family and it's risk for Children's Development )presented by Franke, H., Mikulajová, M., at the International Conference, Bratislava. 8th November 2010
Training vocabulary to improve reading comprehension. Presented by Clara Gomes & Araceli Valle, WP111 Granada, Spain at the 5th ELDEL workshop, Bangor University. 25th October 2010
Effects of Transparency on Reading Development presented by Eduardo Onochie Quintanilla, with Sylvia Defior, Markéta Caravolas, Naymé Salas, Betty Mousikou and Ian Simpson at the 5th ELDEL workshop, Bangor University. 23 October 2010
Projekt ELDEL - Souvislosti mezi čtením a psaním slov u dětí na začátku osvojování gramotnosti (Relationship between reading and spelling in children at the beginning of Literacy Development) Schöffelová, M.; Caravolas, M.; Mikulajová, M. Presented by Mirka Schöffelová at the SAL Conference 14th October 2010.
Projekt ELDEL - Rozv íjanie gramotnosti v európskych jazykoch, (Marie Curie ELDEL - Methodological approaches to cross-linguistic research of literacy), by Marina Mikulajová at the SAL Conference Bratislava. 14 October 2010.
Deti s NVR a deti s rodinnym rizikom dyslexie v predskolskom veku, (Children at family risk for dyslexia and children with specific language impairment in pre-school years), Jagerciková, Z., Nash, H., Kurcharská, A., Mikulajova, M. Presented by Zuzana Jagerciková at the SAL Conference, Bratislava. 14 October 2010.
Rané ukazovatele rizikového v ývinu det í o čami rodi čov (Children at risk of dyslexia through the eyes of their parents )presented by Helena Franke with Marina Mikulajová at the SAL Conference, Bratislava. 14 October 2010
Profil deti se SPU ve 3. rocniku základnich skol (Profile of Children with Learning Difficuties) presented by Alena Velecká with Marina Mikulajová at the SAL Conference, Bratislava. 14 October 2010.
September2010
Pregraphic Control During Subject-Verb Agreement: First evidence from eye and pen movements. Alamargot, D., Fayol, M, O´Brien Ramírez, K., Pagán, A., Larocque, D., & Caporossi, G. presented by Denis Alamrgot at the University of Education Heidelberg, Germany, 8-10th September 2010.
Time Course of Orthographic Processes During Handwriting: pauses and eye movements analysis. Alamargot, D. & Fayol, M. Symposium at the ‘SIG-Writing Conference’ University of Education, Heidenberg, Germany. 8-10th September 2010
Una taza de vocabulario, dos cucharadas de estrategia y una pizca de atención: entrenamiento del vocabulario para mejorar la comprensión lectora. (A cup of vocabulary, two tablespoons strategy and a bit of attention: vocabulary training improve reading comprehension). Gomes, C., Valle, A. & Defior, S. The University of Granada. Presented by Araceli Valle at the Fourth Seminar on Literacy Research Andaluz, Cadiz, September 23, 2010
Aprendizaje Implícito de la Lectoescritura (Implicit Learning of Literacy). Nigro, L., Jiménez-Fernández, G., Defior, S. & Simpson, I. The University of Granada. Presented by Luciana Nigro at the Fourth Seminar on Literacy Research Andaluz, Cadiz, September 23, 2010
EMERGENCIA DE LAS HABILIDADES PROSÓDICAS Y EL DESARROLLO DE LA ESCRITURA EN PREESCOLARES (Emergent prosodic skills and literacy development in spanish pre-school children). Calet Ruiz*, N., Gutiérrez-Palma**, N., González-Trujillo*, M. C., Defior Citoler*, S. & Onochie-Quintanilla*, E. The University of Granada* and The University of Jaen**. Presented by Eduardo Onochie-Quintanilla* at the Fourth Seminar on Literacy Research Andaluz, Cadiz, September 23, 2010
Habilidades Prosódicas y Desarrollo de la Lectoescritura en niñas y niños de 5 años ( Prosodic skills and Literacy Development in 5 year old children). Calet, N., Defior, S., Palma*, N. & Gómez*, E. The University of Granada and The University of Jaen* Presented by Luciana at the Fourth Seminar on Literacy Research Andaluz, Cadiz, September 23, 2010
Evolución de la lectura en la fase inicial de aprendizaje: Velocidad y Precisión (Evolution of reading in the initial learning phase: Speed and Accuracy). Onochie Quintanilla, E., Defior, S. & Simpson, I. The University of Granada. Presented by Eduardo Onochie Quintanilla, at the Fourth Seminar on Literacy Research Andaluz, Cadiz, September 23, 2010
July 2010
Literacy Acquisition Predictors in a Transparent Orthography Author: Eduardo Onochie Quintanilla, University of Granada, Spain. Presented at the Marie Curie Conference, Torino, 30th June-2nd July 2010
Taking Science to the Community, Implicit and Explicit Learning of Spelling. Author: Luciana Nigro, University of Granada, Spain. Presented at the Marie Curie Conference, Torino, 30th June-2nd July 2010
A cup of vocabulary, two spoons of strategy and a pinch of attention: Training vocabulary to improve reading comprehension Author: Clara Gomes, Thesis advisor: Dr. Sylvia Defior Universidad de Granada, Spain – Department of Developmental and Educational Psychology*
Emergent prosodic skills and literacy development in Spanish preschool children by Sylvia Defior, Nuria Calet, Luciana Nigro, Nicolás Gutiérrez-Palma* and Eduardo Onochie University of Granada, *University of Jaén, Spain. Presented by Nuria Calet at Seventeenth Annual Meeting Society for the Scientific Study of Reading
The Nata Goulandris Memorial Lecture given by Dr Markéta Caravolas 14th June 2010.
Marie Curie Monitoring Action and Information Days Barcelona 9-11th June 2010. Presentations by Clara Gomes and by Francisca Serrano and Sylvia Defior
Some methodological problems of developmental research in ‘small languages’ Marína Mikulajová, presented at Workshop 4, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia.
Poster presentation by Naymé Salas, (PhD ESR Fellow) et al. at the COST Action A33 Let the Children Speak: Learning of Critical Language Skills Across 25 Languages
An introduction about a large-scale project on ‘Enhancing Literacy Development in European Languages’ by Marína Mikulajová & Markéta Caravolas in the International Association for the Study of Child Language.
EL PROYECTO ELDEL: MEJORAR EL DESARROLLO DEL LENGUAJE ESCRITO EN LAS LENGUAS EUROPEAS (ENHANCING LITERACY DEVELOPMENT IN EUROPEAN LANGUAGES) at XXVII Congreso de AESLA, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, 26-28 marzo 2009