Research groups
Colleges
Biography
I am Professor in Experimental Psychology and Fellow of St. John's College (visit my St John's page here). My interests in children's language and literacy development began with my DPhil research at the University of York (1991-1994) which explored factors influencing spelling development. Following my DPhil, I stayed in York working as a Research Fellow for 5 years before being appointed Lecturer in Psychology at York in 1999. I moved to Oxford in 2002.
Kate Nation
BSc DPhil CPsychol.
Professor of Experimental Psychology
- Fellow of St John's College
- Director of ReadOxford and Language and Cognitive Development Research Group
- Partner Investigator, Australian Research Council Centre for Excellence in Cognition and its Disorders, Macquarie University, Sydney
- Associate Head for Personnel
Development & Disorders
Research Summary
Broadly, my research is concerned with the language processing, especially reading development. I am interested in how children learn to read words and comprehend text, and more generally, the relationship between spoken language and written language. A key aim at present to specify some of the mechanisms involved in the transition from novice to expert. We also study language processing in skilled adults, addressing the issue of how skilled behaviour emerges via language learning experience.
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Key publications
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The influence of consistency, frequency, and semantics on learning to read: an artificial orthography paradigm.
Journal article
Taylor JSH. et al, (2011), J Exp Psychol Learn Mem Cogn, 37, 60 - 76
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Beyond phonological skills: Broader language skills contribute to the development of reading
Journal article
Nation K. and Snowling MJ., (2004), Journal of Research in Reading, 27, 342 - 356
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Beginning readers activate semantics from sub-word orthography.
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Nation K. and Cocksey J., (2009), Cognition, 110, 273 - 278
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A longitudinal investigation of early reading and language skills in children with poor reading comprehension.
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Nation K. et al, (2010), J Child Psychol Psychiatry, 51, 1031 - 1039
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Hidden language impairments in children: parallels between poor reading comprehension and specific language impairment?
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Nation K. et al, (2004), J Speech Lang Hear Res, 47, 199 - 211
Recent publications
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‘Book language’ and its implications for children’s language, literacy, and development
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NATION K. et al, (2022), Current Directions in Psychological Science
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Context availability and sentence availability ratings for 3,000 English words and their association with lexical processing
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Taylor E. et al, (2022), Journal of Cognition
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Nap Effects on Pre-school Children’s Learning of Letter-sound Mappings
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Wang H-C. et al, (2022), Child Development
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The nature and frequency of relative clauses in the language children hear and the language children read: A developmental cross-corpus analysis of English complex grammar
Journal article
HSIAO Y. et al, (2022), Journal of Child Language
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The nature and frequency of relative clauses in the language children hear and the language children read: A developmental cross-corpus analysis of English complex grammar
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HSIAO Y. et al, (2022), Journal of Child Language