הרצאה: The links between word level writing skills and text level quality

במסגרת הבימה למחקר ברב לשוניות כמו בכל יום חמישי תתקים הרצאה הפעם מאת פרופ' ליליאנה טולצ'ינסקי אורחת מאוניברסיטת ברצלונה, ספרד.

ההרצאה בנושא:The links between word level writing skills (such as spelling) and text level quality

תתקיים בשפה האנגלית

כולם מוזמנים, סטודנטים, מרצים וחברי סגל.

A recurring claim in developmental models of written composition is that text quality depends to a large extent on efficient low-level writing skills (handwriting and word spelling skills).

This talk will provide a critical reading of cross–sectional, longitudinal, and intervention studies carried out over the last 30 years on the relationship among levels of language (word, sentence, text) in the development of written text composition.

I will show that although researchers have tended to assume it is low-level skills that determine the development of high-level skills, systematic testing of this assumption is very rare. In addition, most studies to date have been carried out in English, while research on more transparent orthographies is still scarce. Explaining compositional quality in a systematic way remains a challenge for written composition research.