Recent publications

2025

Book chapters

  • Compton, D. L., Steacy, L. M., Rigobon, V. M., Edwards, A. A., Gutiérrez, N., Marencin, N. C., & Vasile, R. M. (in press). Representational quality in children with dyslexia: Issues of precision and redundancy that affect long-term word reading and decoding development. In C. M. Okolo, N. Patton Terry, & L. E. Cutting (Eds.), Handbook of Learning Disabilities, Third Edition (pp. 30-52). New York, NY: Gilford Press.
  • Parrila, R., Inoue, T., & Zhang, A. J.-J. (2025). Home literacy as a developmental system. In G. Georgiou & T. Inoue (Eds.), Home literacy environment and literacy acquisition: Evidence from different languages and contexts. Springer. DOI:1007/978-3-031-87124-5_3

Journal papers

  • Bollig, B., Coverdale, G., Bayliss, D., McArthur, G., & Badcock, N. A. (2026). What Parents, Teachers and Clinicians Know About the Features of Developmental Dyslexia and Its Intervention: A Scoping Review. Dyslexia, 32(1), e70017. DOI: 1002/dys.70017
  • Cho, E., Ju, U., Kim, E. H., D. L. (2025). Achievement goal profiles and reading-related outcomes in elementary students with and without reading difficulties. Learning and Individual Differences, 119, 102661. DOI:10.1016/j.lindif.2025.102661
  • Compton, D. L., Steacy, L. M., Cooper Borkenhagen, Rigobon, V. M., Vazquez, C. E, & Smith, J. A. (in press). A blueprint for improving the lexical quality of "stored" representations: Moving past simple decoding instruction for children with dyslexia. Mind, Brain, and Education. Special issue on Extending our Knowledge of Context, Theory, Neuroscience, and Learning Science to Improve Treatments for Students with Dyslexia.
  • Compton, D. L. & Vaughn, S. (in press). How treatments for students with dyslexia might reflect our knowledge of theory, neuroscience, and learning science. Mind, Brain, and Education. Special issue on Extending our Knowledge of Context, Theory, Neuroscience, and Learning Science to Improve Treatments for Students with Dyslexia. org/10.1111/mbe.70018
  • Dunn, K., Georgiou, G., Savage, R., & Parrila, R.(2025). Efficacy of small group reading intervention for Grade 2 and 3 children with reading difficulties: A cluster randomized controlled trial. Journal of Learning Disabilities, 58(5),374-389. DOI: 1177/00222194241297058
  • Edwards, A. A., Steacy, L. M., Rigobon, V. M., Siegelman, N., Rueckl, J. G., & Compton, D. L. (2025). Is the role of set for variability in word reading influenced by conditions leading to partial decoding? Scientific Studies of Reading, 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1080/10888438.2025.2543241
  • Galea, C., Jones, A., Ko, K., Salins, A., Robidoux, S., Noble, C., & McArthur, G. (2025). Home-based shared book reading and developmental outcomes in young children: a systematic review with meta-analyses. Frontiers in Language Sciences, 4, 1540562. DOI/10.3389/flang.2025.1540562
  • Galea, C., Robidoux, S., Salins, A., Noble, C., & McArthur, G. (2025). The Impact of Shared Book Reading on Children and Families: A Study of Dolly Parton's Imagination Library in Tamworth, Australia. Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 39(4), 751-780. https://doi.org/10.1080/02568543.2024.2322731
  • Georgiou, G. K., Inoue, T., McMann, M. McKenzie, S., & Parrila, R. (2025). The growth trajectories of oral and silent word reading fluency before and after COVID-19. Learning & Instruction, 97,https://doi.org/10.1016/j.learninstruc.2025.102105
  • Hill, E., Purnomo, J., Wilmot, A., McEvoy, P., Boyes, M. E., & McArthur, G. (January 29 2025). Application of universal design for learning within Australian school-based mental health programs: Scoping review protocol. DOI:31234/osf.io/r9nbd_v2
  • Jones, A., Gadhi, E., O'Grady-Lee, M., Francis, D., Robidoux, S., McArthur, G., & Hudson, J. (accepted February 20 2025). The validity and reliability of the Reading Anxiety Test (RAT) for children and adolescents. Assessment. Sage Journals. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/10731911251327480
  • Kahraman, H., Casalis, S., Javourey-Drevet, L., Menut A., de Wit, B., & Beyersmann, E. (2025). Morphological complexity modulates morphological processing: evidence from cross-language embedded stem priming in French English bilinguals. Scientific Studies of Reading.https://doi.org/10.1080/10888438.2025.2462826
  • Kahraman, H., Kırkıcı, B., & Beyersmann, E. (2025). Two decades later: Letter transpositions within and across morpheme boundaries in L1 and L2 speakers. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition.https://doi.org/10.1017/S1366728924001020
  • Kilby, A., Stoyanov, D., Wegener, S., Kemp, N., & Beyersmann, E. (2025). Effects of emoji-text integration in digital communication: An eye-tracking study. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience. https://doi.org/10.1080/23273798.2025.2517637
  • Kirby, J. R., Deacon, S. H., Georgiou, G., Geier, K., Chan, J., & Parrila, R. (2025). Effects of morphological awareness, naming speed, and phonological awareness on reading skills from Grade 3 to Grade 5. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 253, 106188. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2024.106188.
  • Ko, K., McArthur, G., & Johnco, C (2025). Validation of the Fitbit Charge 5 for the Detection of Heart Rate and Galvanic Skin Response. Psychophysiology, 62, e70116. https://doi.org/10.1111/psyp.70116
  • Martinez, D., Colenbrander, D., Inoue, A.,Parrila, R., & Georgiou, G. K. (2025). Comparing implicit and explicit morphological analysis instruction for upper elementary readers. Scientific Studies of Reading, 29, 201-229. https://doi.org/10.1080/10888438.2024.2418943
  • Mézière, D., Yu, L., von der Malsburg, T., Reichle, E., & McArthur, G. (2025). Using Eye Movements from a 'Read-Only' Task to Predict Text Comprehension. Reading Research Quarterly. https://doi.org/10.1002/rrq.70023
  • Mohamed, A., Xie, Q., Opoku, M. P., & Cheikhmous, A. (2025). Exploring the impact of family socio-economic status on children's bilingual abilities among Arab families. Education Sciences, 15(4), 516. https://doi.org/10.3390/educsci15040516
  • Salins, A., McArthur, G., Jones, A., & Robidoux, S. (2025). A Longitudinal Study of Reading and Mental Health Development in Children With Reported Ear and Hearing Difficulties. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 68(4), 2060-2079. https://doi.org/10.1044/2024_JSLHR-24-00471
  • Savage, R. S., Georgiou, G., Inoue, T., Dunn, K., & Parrila, R. (2025). Set-for-variability predicts responsiveness to Tier 2 reading interventions. Scientific Studies of Reading, 29, 115-137. https://doi.org/10.1080/10888438.2024.2418940
  • Spencer, J., Kahraman, H. & Beyersmann, E. (2025). The bestersell effect: Nuances in positional encoding of morphemes in visual word recognition. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review,https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-025-02693-7
  • Stoianov, D., Beyersmann, E., Kemp, N., Wegener, S., & Popov, S. (in press). The impact of awareness on affective emoji priming in visual word recognition. Scientific Reports. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-34117-w
  • Svaldi, C., Galli, J. I., Paquier, P., Keulen, S., Van Elp, H., Catsman-Berrevoets, C., Kingma, A., Jonkers, R., Kohnen, S. & de Aguiar, V. (2025). Errors in the Spontaneous Language of Survivors of Pediatric Cerebellar Tumors. The Cerebellum, 24(1), 26. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12311-024-01754-2
  • Wang, H. C., Salins, A., Murray, L., Wegener, S., & Castles, A. (2025). Orthographic facilitation of English vocabulary learning in monolingual and bilingual children. Reading and Writing, 38(6), 1561-1579. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11145-024-10561-4
  • Wegener, S., Castles, A., Beyersmann, E., Nation, K., Wang, H.C., & Reichle, E.D. (2025). Eye tracking and simulating the spacing effect during orthographic learning. Reading Research Quarterly. https://doi.org/10.1002/rrq.70024
  • Xie, Q. & Yeung, S. S.-s. (2025). Examining the dimensionality of vocabulary in English as a second language in Chinese children. Journal of Child Language, 52, 729-738. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305000924000096
  • Xie, Q. & Yeung, S. S.-s. (2025). How is vocabulary involved in second language reading comprehension? A study in Chinese-English bilingual children. PLoS One, 20(10), e0334529. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0334529

Past publications

Behzadnia, A., Ziegler, J., Colenbrander, D., Bürki, A., & Beyersmann, E. (2024). The role of morphemic knowledge during novel word learning. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 77, 1620-1634. https://doi.org/10.1177/17470218231216369

Castles, A., (2024). From language to literacy: understanding dyslexia. Journal & Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales, vol.157, part 1, 2024, 49-52.

Castles, A. (2024). From language to literacy: Understanding dyslexia. In Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales (Vol. 157, No. 493-494, pp. 49-52). Sydney: Royal Society of New South Wales.

Colenbrander, D., von Hagen, A., Kohnen, S., Wegener, S., Ko, K., Beyersmann, E., Behzadnia, A., Parrila, R., Castles, A. (2024). The effects of morphology instruction on literacy outcomes for children in English-speaking countries: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Educational Psychology Review, 36(4), 119. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10648-024-09953-3

Catts, H.W., Patton Terry, N., Lonigan, C.J., Compton, D.L., Wagner, R.W., Steacy, L.M., Farquharson, K., & Petscher, Y. (2024). Revisiting the definition of dyslexia. Annals of Dyslexia. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11881-023-00295-3

Galea, C., Salins, A., Robidoux, S., Noble, C., & McArthur, G. (2024). The Impact of Shared Book Reading on Children and Families: A Study of Dolly Parton's Imagination Library in Tamworth, Australia. Journal of Research in Childhood Education. 1-30.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02568543.2024.2322731

Georgiou, G. K., Parrila, R., & McArthur, G. (2024). Dyslexia and mental health problems: introduction to the special issue. Annals of Dyslexia, 1-3. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11881-024-00300-3

Kellenberger, M. G., Steacy, L. M., Cooper Borkenhagen, M. J., Dozier, J., & Compton, D. L. (in press). Modeling item-level variance of polysyllabic word reading in developing readers: Exploring semantically related child-, word-, and child-by-word predictors. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology.

Ko, K., Jones, A., Francis, D., Robidoux, S., & McArthur, G. (2024). Physiological Correlates of Anxiety in Childhood and Adolescence: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Stress and Health. e3388. https://doi.org/10.1002/smi.3388

Martinez, D., Colenbrander, D., Inoue, T., Falcón, A., Rubi, R., Parrila, R., & Georgiou, G. (2024). The effects of explicit morphological analysis instruction in early elementary Spanish speakers. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 246, #106004. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2024.106004.

Martinez, D., Colenbrander, D., Inoue, T., & Georgiou, G. K. (2024). How well do schoolchildren and adolescents know the form and meaning of different derivational suffixes? Evidence from a cross-sectional study. Applied Psycholinguistics, 1-23. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0142716424000043

Martinez, D., Colenbrander, D., Inoue, T., Parrila, R., & Georgiou, G. (Accepted). Effects of explicit morphological analysis training on novel suffix learning: Evidence from lower and upper elementary students. Scientific Studies of Reading.
https://doi.org/10.1080/10888438.2024.2418943

McArthur, G., Doust, A., Banales, E., Robidoux, S., & Kohnen, S. (2024). Are comorbidities of poor reading related to elevated anxiety in children? Annals of Dyslexia, 74, 79-100. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11881-023-00292-6

Mohamed, A., Opoku, M. P., Safi, M., Belbase, S., Al Mughairbi, F., Xie, Q., et al. (2024). Fathers' involvement in raising children with intellectual disabilities: Mothers' ratings of the contribution of their spouses. PLoS ONE, 19(5): e0294077. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0294077

Mohamed, A., Opoku, M. P., Safi, M., & Xie, Q. (2024). Fatherhood in disability rehabilitation in the United Arab Emirates: Exploring fathers' involvement in raising children with disabilities. Research in Developmental Disabilities, 152, 104809. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ridd.2024.104809

Opoku, M. P., Mohamed, A., Safi, M., Belbase, S., Al Mughairbi, F., Xie, Q., & Al Shatheli, M. (2024). Mothers' evaluations of fathers' contributions to raising children with autism spectrum disorder in the United Arab Emirates. BMC Psychology, 12: 253, https://doi.org/10.1186/s40359-024-01717-6

Parrila, R., Inoue, T., & Zhang, A. J.-J. (in press). Home literacy as a developmental system. In G. Georgiou & T. Inoue (Eds.), Home literacy environment and literacy acquisition: Evidence from different languages and contexts. Springer.

Parrila, R., Inoue, T., Dunn, K., Savage, R., & Georgiou, G. (2024). Connecting teachers' language knowledge, perceived ability and instructional practices to Grade 1 students' literacy outcomes. Reading and Writing, 37, 1153-1181.
https://doi.org.10.1007/s11145-023-10432-4

Rigobon, V. M., Gutiérrez, N., Edwards, A. A., Marencin, N., Cooper Borkenhagen, M., Steacy, L. M., & Compton, D. L. (2024). Modeling Item-Level Spelling Variance in Adults: Providing Further Insights into Lexical Quality. Scientific Studies of Reading, 28(2), 120-141. https://doi.org/10.1080/10888438.2023.2234519

Robidoux, S., Eklund, K., McArthur, G., Francis, D. A., Torppa, M., & Aro, T. (2024). Reading and psychosocial development in Finnish children: Poor reading is associated with later anxiety. Reading and Writing.https://doi.org/10.1007/s11145-024-10559-y

Ruiz, C, Kohnen, S., Muñez, D., Bull, R. (2024). The development of number line estimation in children at risk of mathematics learning difficulties. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology.https://doi.org.10.1016/j.jecp.2024.105916

Sabio, J., Williams, N. S., McArthur, G. M., & Badcock, N. A. (2024). A scoping review on the use of consumer-grade EEG devices for research. Plos one, 19(3), e0291186.
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0291186

Salins, A., Cupples, L., Leigh, G., & Castles, A. (2024). Using orthographic support to reduce the impact of noise on oral vocabulary learning in adults. Journal of Research in Reading.
https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9817.12470

Stoianov, D., Kemp, N., Wegener, S., & Beyersmann, E. (2024). Emojis and affective priming in visual word recognition. Cognition and Emotion. https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2024.2402492

Svaldi, C., Kohnen, S.,Robidoux, S.,Vos, K.,Reinders, A., Arunachalam, S., Jonkers, R., de Aguiar, V.. (2024). Spoken verb learning in children with language disorder. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology 2024-06. https://doi.org.10.1016/j.jecp.2024.105881

Svaldi, C., Paquier, P., Keulen, S., van Elp, H., Catsman-Berrevoets, C., Kingma, A., Jonkers, R., Kohnen, S. & de Aguiar, V. (2024). Characterising the long-term language impairments of children following cerebellar tumour surgery by extracting psycholinguistic properties from spontaneous language. The Cerebellum, 23(2), 523-544.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s12311-023-01563-z

Vieira, A. A., Peng, P., Antoniuk, A., Devries, J., Rothou. K., Parrila, R. & Georgiou, G. (2024). Internalizing problems in individuals with reading, mathematics and unspecified learning difficulties: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Annals of Dyslexia, 74, 4-26. https://doi.org.10.1007/s11881-023-00294-4

Wang, H. C., Salins, A., Murray, L., Wegener, S., & Castles, A. (2024). Orthographic facilitation of English vocabulary learning in monolingual and bilingual children. Reading and Writing, 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11145-024-10561-4

Webber, C., Patel, H., Cunningham, A., Fox, A., Vousden, J., Castles, A., & Shapiro, L. (2024). An experimental comparison of additional training in phoneme awareness, letter-sound knowledge and decoding for struggling beginner readers. British Journal of Educational Psychology., 94(1), 282-305. https://doi.org.10.1111/bjep.12641

Wegener, S.,Castles, A., Beyersmann, E., Nation, K., Wang, H.C., & Reichle, E.D. (Pre-Print 2024). Eye tracking and simulating the spacing effect during orthographic learning. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/8juf7

Xie, Q. & Yeung, S. S.-s. (2024). Examining the dimensionality of vocabulary in English as a second language in Chinese children. Journal of Child Language, 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305000924000096

Xie, Q. & Yeung, S. S.-s. (2024). Specifying the contribution of morphological awareness to decoding, syntactic awareness, and reading comprehension in a second language. Reading and Writing, 37, 1663-1680. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11145-023-10412-8

Xie, Q., Cai, Y., & Yeung, S. S-s. (2024). How does word knowledge facilitate reading comprehension in a second language? A longitudinal study in Chinese primary school children learning English. Reading and Writing, 37, 921-941.https://doi.org/10.1007/s11145-022-10360-9

Behzadnia, A., Wegener, S., Bürki, A., & Beyersmann, E. (2023). The role of oral vocabulary when L2 speakers read novel words: A complex word training study. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1366728923000627

Behzadnia, A., Ziegler, J., Colenbrander, D., Bürki, A., & Beyersmann, E. (2023). The role of morphemic knowledge during novel word learning. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/17470218231216369

Beyersmann, E., Wegener, S., & Kemp, N. (2023). That’s good news ☹: Semantic congruency effects in emoji processing. Journal of Media Psychology: Theories, Methods, and Applications, 35(1), 17-27. https://doi.org/10.1027/1864-1105/a000342

Beyersmann, E., Wegener, S., Pescume, V. N., Nation, K., Colenbrander, D., & Castles, A. (2023). The effect of oral vocabulary training on reading novel complex words. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. 76(6), 1321-1332. https://doi.org/10.1177/17470218221113949

Beyersmann, E., Wegener, S., Spencer, J., & Castles, A. (2023). Acquisition of orthographic forms via spoken complex word training. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 30I, 2, 739-750. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-022-02185-y

Calvi, M., Vieira, A. P. A., Georgiou, G., & Parrila, R. (2023). Systematic review of quality indicators of randomised control trial reading intervention studies for students in Years 7-12. Australasian Journal of Special and Inclusive Education, 47, 28-39. https://doi.org/10.1017/jsi.2023.4

Castles, A., & Nation, K. (2023). Learning to read words. In M. Snowling, C. Hulme, & K. Nation (Eds.) The science of reading: A handbook (2nd Edition). John Wiley & Sons Publishers https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119705116.ch7

Cho, E., Ju, U., Kim, E. H., Lee, M., Lee, G. & Compton. D. L. (2023). Relations among motivation, executive functions, and reading comprehension: Do they differ for students with and without reading difficulties? Scientific Studies of Reading. https://doi.org/10.1080/10888438.2022.2127357

Colenbrander, D., & Kohnen, S. (2023). Word reading: The role of the speech-language pathologist. Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups, 8, 1168-1185. https://doi.org/10.1044/2023_PERSP-23-00054

Compton, D.L., Steacy, L. M., Petscher, Y., Rigobon, V.M., Edwards, A.A, & Gutiérrez, N. (2023). Individual differences in learning to read words: An update and extension. In M. Snowling, C. Hulme, & K. Nation (Eds.), The science of reading: A handbook (2nd Edition). John Wiley & Sons Publishers. https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2023-08297-009

Compton, D. L., Steacy, L. M., Gutiérrez, N., Rigobon, V. M., Edwards, A. A., & Marencin, N. C. (2023). The development of early orthographic representations in children: The lexical asymmetry hypothesis and its implications for children with dyslexia. In S. Q. Cabell, S. B. Neuman, & N. P. Terry (Eds.), Handbook on the Science of Early Literacy (pp. 312-324). The Guilford Press.

Dunn, K., Georgiou, G., Inoue, T., Savage, R., & Parrila, R. (2023). Home and school interventions aided at-risk students’ literacy during Covid-19: A longitudinal analysis. Reading and Writing, 36(2), 449-466. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11145-022-10354-7

Edwards, A. A., Rigobon, V. M., Steacy, L. M., & Compton, D. L. (2023). Spelling-to-pronunciation transparency ratings for the 20,000 most frequently written English words. Behavior Research Methods, 1-14. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-023-02205-2

Edwards, A. A., Steacy, L. M., Rigobon, V. M., Petscher, Y., & Compton, D. L. (2023). Examining the Relationship Between Word Reading and Nonword Reading Development Within an Orthographic Learning Framework: Are There Variations as a Function of SES and Reading Ability? The Elementary School Journal, 123(3), 396-413. https://doi.org/10.1086/723396

Georgiou, G., Inoue, T., & Parrila, R. (2023). Are vocabulary and word reading reciprocally related? Scientific Studies of Reading, 27, 160-168. https://doi.org/10.1080/10888438.2022.2123275

Georgiou, G. & Parrila, R. (2023). Covid-19 and literacy: An introduction to the special issue. Reading and Writing, 36(2), 241-243. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11145-022-10393-0

Gutiérrez, N., Rigobon, V. M., Marencin, N., Edwards, A. A., Steacy L. M., & Compton, D. L. (2023). Early Prediction of Reading Risk in Fourth-Grade: A Classification Tree Approach. Scientific Studies of Reading. 27(1), 21-38. https://doi.org/10.1080/10888438.2022.2121655

Inoue, T., Georgiou, G., K., & Parrila, R. (2023). The growth trajectories of morphological awareness and its predictors. Applied Psycholinguistics. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0142716423000218

Jang, J., Parrila, R., & Inoue, T. (2023). Relations of vocabulary and cognitive skills with reading performance of North Korean students in South Korean schools. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 52, 241-259. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10936-022-09855-x

McArthur, G., Doust, A., Banales, E., Robidoux, S., & Kohnen, S. (2023). Are comorbidities of poor reading related to elevated anxiety in children? Annals of Dyslexia, 1-19. DOI: 10.1007/s11881-023-00292-6

Mealings, K., Miles, K. M., Parrila, R., Holt, R., Cox, F., Sharma, M., Demuth, K., Leigh, G., McMahon, C., McArthur, G., & Buchholz, J., et al. (2023). An interdisciplinary approach to enhance children's listening, learning, and wellbeing in the classroom: The Listen to Learn for Life (L3) assessment framework. Frontiers in Education. 8:1185167. https://doi.org/10.3389/feduc.2023.1185167

Mézière, D., Yu, L., McArthur, G., Reichle, E., & von der Malsburg, T. (2023). Scanpath regularity as an index of reading comprehension. Scientific Study of Reading. https://doi.org/10.1080/10888438.2023.2232063

Mézière, D. C., Yu, L., Reichle, E. D., Von Der Malsburg, T., & McArthur, G. (2023). Using eye-tracking measures to predict reading comprehension. Reading Research Quarterly. https://doi.org/10.1002/rrq.498

Parrila, R., Inoue, T., Dunn, K., Savage, R., & Georgiou, G. (2023). Connecting teachers’ language knowledge, perceived ability and instructional practices to Grade 1 students’ literacy outcomes. Reading and Writing.https://doi.org/10.1007/s11145-023-10432-4

Parrila, R. & Georgiou, G. K. (2023). Literacy and Reading. In W. Troop-Gordon & E. Neblett (eds.), Encyclopedia of Adolescence (2nd ed., vol. 1). Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1017/jsi.2023.4

Rigobon, V. M., Gutiérrez, N., Edwards, A. A., Abes, D., Steacy, L. M., & Compton, D. L. (2023). Does Spanish knowledge contribute to accurate English word spelling in adult bilinguals? Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 1-18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1366728923000093

Salins, A. O., Cupples, L., Leigh, G. & Castles, A., (2023). Orthographic facilitation of oral vocabulary acquisition in primary school children. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology 76, 1045-1056. https://doi.org/10.1177/17470218221102916

Soares, S., Boyes, M., Parrila, R., & Badcock, N. (2023). Does reading anxiety impact on academic achievement in higher education students. Dyslexia. https://doi.org/10.1002/dys.1738

Steacy, L. M., Edwards, A., Rigobon, V. M., Gutierrez, N., Marencin, N. C., Siegelman, N., Himelhock, A., Himelhoch, C., Rueckl, J., & Compton, D. L. (2023). Set for variability as a critical predictor of word reading: Potential implications for early identification and treatment of dyslexia, Reading Research Quarterly, 58, 254-267. https://doi.org/10.1002/rrq.475

Stoianov, D., Kemp, N., Wegener, S., & Beyersmann, L. (2023). Emoji-Induced Positivity Bias in Lexical Processing: Evidence from a Priming Lexical Decision Task. In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (Vol. 45, No. 45). https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0102m0ds

Torppa, M., Aro, T., Eklund, K., Parrila, R., Eloranta, A.-K., Ahonen T. (2023). Adolescent reading and math skills and self-concept beliefs as predictors of age 20 emotional well-being. Reading and Writing. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11145-023-10461-z

Vieira, A. A., Peng, P., Antoniuk, A., Devries, J., Rothou. K., Parrila, R. & Georgiou, G. (2023). Internalizing problems in individuals with reading, mathematics and unspecified learning difficulties: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Annals of Dyslexia. DOI: 10.1007/s11881-023-00294-4

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