Check out our new L&L Seed GrantElizabeth Tighe, assistant professor in the College of Arts and Sciences and assistant director of the college’s Adult Literacy Research Center, and Assistant Professor Elizabeth Stevens received $42,000 for a project entitled, “Development of the Mighty Morphin’ Word Explorers Intervention for Struggling Adult Readers.”
They will develop and test a seven-week, face-to-face intervention program aimed at improving struggling adult readers’ decoding, vocabulary, morphological knowledge and reading comprehension skills. “This intervention will use an approach with adult-appropriate reading passages to enhance students’ understanding of the spelling, structure and meaning of words,” Tighe said. “This grant will allow us to develop the intervention materials, test the intervention with struggling adult readers and build and test an app for supplemental practice. With this initial data, we hope to find funding to scale up this work and test the intervention with larger groups of struggling adult readers.” |
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