Dec 13, 2022
Kathy Rastle, a leading expert on skilled reading and learning to
read, visits Google to discuss how her lab’s research has had a
major influence on how children around the world are taught to
read. Learning to read is the most important milestone of a child’s
education. Yet, reading is not a universal part of the human
experience. Writing is a recent cultural invention and reading is a
learned skill whose mastery requires years of instruction,
dedication, and practice. Kathy will walk us through what
psychological science has discovered about this fascinating
process, and share her reflections on how we can use this knowledge
to improve literacy for children around the world.
Kathy’s research is focused on reading acquisition, skilled
reading, and the relationship between reading and spoken language.
She has a particular interest in characterizing the information
that is present in written languages, and in understanding how this
information is learned through instruction and text experience.
Recently, she conducted a number of artificial language learning
experiments investigating how acquired knowledge is influenced by
properties of languages and writing systems, the quality of prior
knowledge, and the nature of instruction.
Visit YouTube.com/TalksatGoogle to watch the video.