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Dr Dalia Martinez Cano

Research Fellow, Laureate

In 2024, Dr Martinez completed her Ph.D. in Special Education at the University of Alberta and thereafter assumed her role as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow. She has worked as a lecturer for the University of Alberta, where she taught various undergraduate courses on language development and inclusive education.

Dr Martinez's research centres on word reading, spelling, and reading comprehension, with a particular focus on morphology. Her interest in cross-linguistic differences in reading development has led her to collaborate with research laboratories in Mexico and Canada. She has contributed to the design and implementation of tasks related to word reading and morphological knowledge in English and Spanish and conducted research with lower, upper elementary, and college students in both countries. Furthermore, she was the project manager for numerous experiments using eye-tracking technology to explore cross-linguistic differences between English, Dutch, and Greek in the acquisition of novel orthographic representations.