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Roxana Botezatu

I am a Ph.D. Candidate (ABD) in the Department of Communications Sciences and Disorders at the
Pennsylvania State University. My research interests lie in understanding the cognitive processes and neural substrates that underlie readers’ expectation of consistency in spelling-sound mappings during single word recognition and of syntactic constraints during sentence comprehension. In addition to behavioral measures, I use the fine-grained temporal resolution provided by Event Related Potentials (ERPs) to investigate how such expectations differ as a function of language experience (i.e., monolinguals vs. bilinguals) and of communication skills (i.e., typical vs. language disordered populations).

My dissertation evaluates how differences in letter-sound mapping between a bilingual’s first and second languages impact reading in the second language. The  goal is to provide converging evidence using behavioral and neurocognitive methods (ERPs) to better understand the consequences of native language reading strategy for skilled reading in English. Results will provide critical implications for adapting current models of single word reading to the bilingual lexicon and will ultimately inform literacy instruction practices targeting English language learners. This research is supported by a Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant from the National Science Foundation. 
 
Lab Affiliation: The Brain, Language, and Literacy Laboratory



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