Monique Sénéchal Primary Affiliation: Carleton University Department of Psychology 1125 Colonel By Drive Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1S 5B6 Phone:613-520-2600 #1155 Fax:613-520-3667 Email: monique_senechal@carleton.ca http://www.carleton.ca/psychology/directory/senechal_m.html

Research Interests & Abilities (Keywords)

• language
• phoneme
• awareness
• literacy

Major Research Activities

As a developmental psychologist, I am interested in understanding how children learn language and literacy from events that occur naturally in their lives. One such activity is when parents (or other adults) read books to children, or when children read books themselves. I am also interested in understanding the basic mechanisms that underlie the acquisition of reading and writing

Network Research Projects

• Factors Affecting Language Development and Reading Difficulties  (Project Leader)
• Development of a Multi-component Test Battery for the Assessment of French Reading Skills  
• The Contribution of Preschool Social Context to the Acquisition of Reading and Writing Skills