Research
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Latest funding
- $397,285
Information and communication technology in adult literacy classes: effectiveness and empowerment impacts from three continents
SSHRC · 2013 · Principal investigator
- $159,049
Literacy development across languages
SSHRC · 2010 · Co-investigator
- $104,600
Longitudinal prediction and analysis of reading difficulties in Canadian French-speaking children
SSHRC · 2010 · Principal investigator
No publications available.
Information and communication technology in adult literacy classes: effectiveness and empowerment impacts from three continents
Principal investigators: Desrochers, Alain M.
Keywords: information and communication technology; female literacy; bargaining power and empowerment; adult literacy; inter-generational spill-overs; field experiment; experimental methods
Literacy development across languages
Principal investigators: Georgiou, Georgios
Keywords: literacy; phonological processing; orthographic processing; longitudinal; cross-linguistic
Longitudinal prediction and analysis of reading difficulties in Canadian French-speaking children
Principal investigators: Desrochers, Alain M.
Keywords: reading development; normally developing readers and struggling readers; longitudinal prediction of reading performance; analysis of reading difficulties; French-speaking children
CHERCHE-MOTS: a software tool for the selection of French lexical items for research applications in education and the language sciences
Principal investigators: Desrochers, Alain M.
Keywords: psychology; computer science; lexicology; lexical database; French language
The development of French word morphology knowledge and its relation to reading
Principal investigators: Desrochers, Alain M.
Keywords: literacy development; reading; phonological processing; grammatical morphology
The development of music reading skills in young piano students
Principal investigators: Comeau, Gilles
Keywords: music education; music reading; sight-reading; piano playing; motor control; hand-eye coordination
Funding request for an eyetracker for research programs on visual cognition
Principal investigators: Collin, Charles
Évolution et variation en français du Québec, du XVIIe siècle au XIXe siècle
Principal investigators: Martineau, France G.
Keywords: diachronie du français; morphosyntaxe; phonologie; acquisition de l'orthographe; français québécois; français familier
Le développement de la sensibilité phonologique et des connaissances alphabétiques en tant que fondements de la littéracie en français
Principal investigators: Cormier, Pierre
Keywords: lecture; alphabet; sensibilité phonologique; alphabétisme
Élaboration d'un didacticiel intelligent pour le développement de compétences en lecture chez les apprenants en langue seconde
Principal investigators: Duquette, Lise
Keywords: éducation continue; apprentissage; évaluation; autonomie; enseignement assisté par ordinateur; linguistique textuelle; analyseur syntaxique
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