Xi Chen is an Associate Professor in the Department of Applied Psychology and Human Development at the University of Toronto. Her research specializes in the language and literacy development of bilingual and English Language Learners. Vedran Dronjic is an A. W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Modern Languages at Carnegie Mellon University, where he teaches in the doctoral program in Second Language Acquisition. His research focuses on the cognitive underpinnings of language knowledge and performance, particularly morphology, the mental lexicon, and reading.Rena Helms-Park is an Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Toronto Scarborough, where she teaches in the Psycholinguistics Specialist program. Her research interests lie in lexical acquisition and cross-linguistic influence.

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• 1. Languages and Scripts 2. Reading and Cognition 3. Word Recognition and Spelling 4. Cross-Language Transfer of Cognitive and Metalinguistic Skills. 5. Vocabulary and Reading 6. Higher-Level Processes in Reading 7. Reading Strategies and Knowledge of Text Structure 8. The Social Context of Second Language Reading 9. Reading in a Technological Age 10. Problems with Reading.