Multilingual Text Comprehension

Ute Schönpflug, PhD., Prof. adj. emer. received her education at Northwestern University and in Germany. She taught developmental/educational psychology at Martin-Luther University (Halle/Germany) and Free University Berlin. She was associate editor of the Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology for ten years and published part of her research in a volume on Cultural Transmission.She is author and co-author of several psychology textbooks. As an adjunct member of ICC, Boulder, Co. (USA) her research interests focussed on text processing in multilingual children. She has served the UGC/RGC in Hong Kong as member and reviewer of the Linguistics/Psychology Panel for the last years.

• 1. Issues and questions in text comprehension.- 2.Multiple language use and text comprehension.- 3. Assessment of text comprehension.- 4. Multilingual development and text processing.- 5. Higher order cognitive skills in multilingual text comprehension.- 6. Text comprehension dynamics: time parameters.- 7. A Theoretical Models of Multilingual Text Processing.- 8. Educational Applications of Text Comprehension Research.- 9. Understanding Multilingual Text Comprehension.