Staff Profile:Dr. Holly Joseph
- Name:
- Dr Holly Joseph
- Job Title:
- Associate Professor
- Responsibilities:
Institute of Education Responsibilities:
- Co-Director Postgraduate Research Studies
- Co-Director of Bilingualism Matters @ Reading
- IoE Chair of Ethics
Teaching:
- Child Development in Education (MA in Education)
- Investigating Education (MA in Education)
- Quantitative Research Methods in Education (Postgraduate research students)
- MA and PhD dissertation supervision
- Areas of Interest:
Expertise and Research Interest:
- Reading development and difficulties.
- Eye movements during reading.
- New word learning and vocabulary acquisition.
- Reading comprehension in children speak English as an Additional Language.
- Developmental disorders (DLD, ASD, dyslexia, reading comprehension difficulties).
Masters/Doctoral Level Supervision offered in these areas:
- Reading development
- Reading for pleasure and vocabulary development
- Bilingual reading development
- Incidental word learning during reading.
- Reading comprehension in typically developing children and special populations.
- Eye movements during reading.
Current PhD Students, with Topics/Titles of their Research:
- Lujain Almatrouk (from 2019): Reading difficulties in bilingual English-Arabic children
- Beverley Jennings (from 2018): Adolescent reading practices: a corpus linguistics approach to defining success
- Helen Norris (from 2017): Does the teaching of explicit grammar benefit all primary school children’s writing and reading?
- James Wagstaffe (from 2017): Reading patterns of strong and weak second-language readers in an academic context
- Research groups / Centres:
- Centre for Literacy and Multilingualism.
- Language and Literacy in Education research group.
- Publications:
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YNumber of items: 15.
2020
- Joseph, H., Wonnacott, E. and Nation, K. (2020) Online inference making and comprehension monitoring in children during reading: evidence from eye movements. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. ISSN 1747-0226 (In Press)
2018
- Joseph, H. and Nation, K. (2018) Examining incidental word learning during reading in children: the role of context. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 166. pp. 190-211. ISSN 0022-0965 doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2017.08.010
2017
- Micai, M., Joseph, H., Vulchanova, M. and Saldaña, D. (2017) Strategies of readers with autism when responding to inferential questions: an eye movement study. Autism Research, 10 (5). pp. 888-900. ISSN 1939-3806 doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/aur.1731
2016
- Perez, A., Joseph, H. S. S. L., Bajo, T. and Nation, K. (2016) Evaluation and revision of inferential comprehension in narrative texts: an eye movement study. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 31 (4). pp. 549-566. ISSN 2327-3801 doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/23273798.2015.1115883
- Wonnacott, E., Joseph, H. S. S. L., Adelman, J. S. and Nation, K. (2016) Is children's reading “good enough”? Links between online processing and comprehension as children read syntactically ambiguous sentences. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 69 (5). pp. 855-879. ISSN 1747-0218 doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/17470218.2015.1011176
2015
- Joseph, H. S. S. L., Bremner, G., Liversedge, S. P. and Nation, K. (2015) Working memory, reading ability and the effects of distance and typicality on anaphor resolution in children. Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 27 (5). pp. 622-639. ISSN 2044-592X doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/20445911.2015.1005095
2014
- Joseph, H. S. S. L., Wonnacott, E., Forbes, P. and Nation, K. (2014) Becoming a written word: eye movements reveal order of acquisition effects following incidental exposure to new words during silent reading. Cognition, 133 (1). pp. 238-248. ISSN 0010-0277 doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2014.06.015
2013
- Joseph, H. S. S. L. and Liversedge, S. P. (2013) Children’s and adults’ processing of syntactically ambiguous sentences during reading. PLoS ONE, 8 (1). e54141. ISSN 1932-6203 doi: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0054141
- Reichle, E. D., Liversedge, S. P., Drieghe, D., Blythe, H. I., Joseph, H. S. S. L., White, S. J. and Rayner, K. (2013) Using E-Z Reader to examine the concurrent development of eye-movement control and reading skill. Developmental Review, 33 (2). pp. 110-149. ISSN 0273-2297 doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dr.2013.03.001
- Joseph, H. S. S. L., Nation, K. and Liversedge, S. P. (2013) Using eye movements to investigate word frequency effects in children’s sentence reading. School Psychology Review, 42 (2). pp. 207-222. ISSN 0279-6015
2011
- Blythe, H. I. and Joseph, H. S. S. L. (2011) Children’s eye movements during reading. In: Liversedge, S. P., Gilchrist, I. and Everling, S. (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Eye Movements. Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 643-662. ISBN 9780199539789
2009
- Blythe, H. I., Liversedge, S. P., Joseph, H., White, S. J. and Rayner, K. (2009) Visual information capture during fixations in reading for children and adults. Vision Research. ISSN 0042-6989 doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.visres.2009.03.015
- Joseph, H. S. S. L., Liversedge, S. P., Blythe, H. I., White, S. J. and Rayner, K. (2009) Word length and landing position effects during reading in children and adults. Vision Research, 49 (16). pp. 2078-2086. ISSN 0042-6989 doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.visres.2009.05.015
2008
- Joseph, H., Liversedge, S. P., Blythe, H. I., White, S. J., Gathercole, S. E. and Rayner, K. (2008) Children’s and Adults’ Processing of Anomaly and Implausibility during Reading: Evidence from Eye Movements. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. ISSN 1747-0218
2006
- Blythe, H. I., Liversedge, S. P., Joseph, H. S., White, S. J., Findlay, J. M. and Rayner, K. (2006) The binocular coordination of eye movements during reading in children and adults. Vision Research. ISSN 0042-6989 doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.visres.2006.06.006
Recent Conference Presentations:
- Society of Scientific Studies of Reading, Toronto, July, 2019 (Invited symposium) Reading and reading-related skills in Arabic-English bilingual speakers in the UK and Saudi Arabia (H. Joseph, D. Powell & S. Alhelfawi)
- Society of Scientific Studies of Reading, Brighton, July, 2018 (Invited symposium) Beyond vocabulary - Oral language and communication skills in children learning English as an additional language: Discussant
- Child Language Symposium, June 2018 Incidental word learning during reading in children who speak English as an additional language: Evidence from eye movements (H. Joseph)
- EuroSLA, Reading, August 2017 Incidental word learning during reading in children who speak English as an additional language: Evidence from eye movements.
- Experimental Psychology Society, Reading, July 2017 Predictors of incidental word learning during reading in monolingual and bilingual children: Evidence from eye movements.
- Society of Scientific Studies of Reading, Porto, July, 2016 (Invited symposium).
- Incidental word learning during reading in children who speak English as an additional language (Joseph, H.).
- Society of Scientific Studies of Reading, Hawaii, July, 2015:The role of contextual diversity in incidental word learning during reading: An eye movement study (Joseph, H. & Nation, K.).
- Society of Scientific Studies of Reading, Santa Fe, July, 2014: Can children use context to override thematic implausibilities during reading? Evidence from eye movements (Joseph, H. & Nation, K.).
- Developmental eye‐tracking research in reading, Hannover, October 2013 (Invited symposium): Is comprehension ability associated with online inference-making and strategy use in children? (Joseph, H., Wonnacott, E. & Nation, K.).
- Joint Annual Conference of the BPS Developmental and Cognitive Sections, Reading, September 2013 (Invited symposium): Does comprehension ability predict online inference-making and strategy use in children? Evidence from eye movements (Joseph, H., Wonnacott, E. & Nation, K.).
- Society of Scientific Studies of Reading, Hong Kong, July, 2013 (Invited symposium): Online inference-making in children with and without comprehension difficulties (Joseph, H., Wonnacott, E. & Nation, K.).
- Society of Scientific Studies of Reading, Montreal, July, 2012: Children's resolution of anaphora during reading: Semantic typicality and distance effects (Joseph, H., Nation, K., Liversedge, S. & Wonnacott, E.).
Any Further Information:
Enterprise Activity, External Roles and Consultancy:
- Member: Experimental Psychology Society.
- Voting member: Society for the Scientific Study of Reading.
- Member: Forum for Research in Literacy and Language.
- Member of ESRC Peer Review College.
- External examiner: BSc Psychology in Education, Department of Education, University of York