Developmental Aspects of Literacy and Education in a Digital World
The development of literacy in a digital world lasts for the entire lifespan and requires a constant interaction between reading and writing, combining information from different sources and different notational systems so as to produce and interpret meaningful texts.
The focus of WG2 is on the lifelong development of the literate mind/brain and how it can be further promoted by education. This WG will crucially rely on the richness arising from the diversity of European languages and in the increasing number of educational practices to which research is adding evidence-based support.
WG2 aims to develop an overall view of literacy development across the entire lifespan, capitalizing on the European linguistic and social diversity as a natural laboratory to examine the extent to which milestones and predictors of literacy development are general across languages and linguistic conditions of the learner (bilingual/monolingual).
Such diverse context will also enable to compare a wide range of teaching practices and to design intervention studies and innovative educational projects.
