| Professor Kathy Rastle |
| Fri 05 Oct 2018, 16:00 - 17:00 |
| David Hume Tower Lecture Theatre A |
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Professor Kathy Rastle
Royal Holloway, University of London
There is intense public interest in questions surrounding how children learn to read. Research in psychological science has provided answers to many of these questions, but this research has been slow to make inroads into policy and practice. Instead the field has been plagued by decades of “reading wars”. This talk will provide an overview of the state-of-the-art in our understanding of reading acquisition and will evaluate the fit between this scientific understanding and public policy. I will argue that it is time to end the reading wars, in favour of an agenda that is developmentally informed, and based on a deep understanding of how writing systems work.