Global Variation in Literacy Development

Ludo Verhoeven is Professor of Communication, Language, and Literacy in the Behaviour Science Institute at Radboud University Nijmegen and at the University of Curaçao. Sonali Nag is Professor of Psychology and Education and Education Fellow of Brasenose College, University of Oxford. Charles Perfetti is Distinguished University Professor of Psychology and Director of the Learning Research and Development Center at the University of Pittsburgh. Kenneth Pugh is Professor of Psychology at the University of Connecticut and Associate Professor of Linguistics and Medicine at Yale University, and he is President and Director of Research, and Senior Scientist at Haskins Laboratories.

1. Introduction – Literacy development: a global perspective; Part I. Regional Variations: 2. Sociocultural variation in literacy development in Canada and the United States Michael J. Kieffer and Rose Vukovic; 3. Literacy contexts and literacy development in South America Ana Luiza Navas; 4. Postcolonial literacy development in the Caribbean Ludo Verhoeven and Ronald Severing; 5. Literacy development in Europe Luisa Araújo and Patricia da Costa; 6. Literacy education and literacy development in Russia Olga Velichenkova and Margarita Rusetskaya; 7. Literacy development and language of instruction in sub-Saharan Africa Amber Gove, Karon Harden, Simon King, Jennifer Pressley Ryann, Sarrynna Sou and Susan Edwards; 8. Literacy and linguistic diversity in multilingual India Pooja R. Nakamura and Chinmaya R. Holla; 9. Literacy development in East Asia Michelle R. Y. Huo, Xin Sun, Ioulia Kovelman and Xi Chen; 10. Literacy and linguistic diversity in Australia Anne-Marie Morgan, Nicholas Reid and Peter Freebody; Part II. Neurobiological and Ecological Markers: 11. Writing systems and global literacy development Charles Perfetti and Ludo Verhoeven; 12. Brain foundations for learning to read Pietra Cassol Rigatti, Xin Cui, Kenneth Pugh, Mailce Borges Mota and Augusto Buchweitz; 13. Genetics and literacy development Elena L. Grigorenko; 14. Role of self-regulation in the transition to school Frederick J. Morrison, Jennie Grammer, Lindsay Bell Weixler and Matthew H. Kim; 15. Socio-economic status, socio-cultural factors and literacy development Sonali Nag; 16. Sensitivity to contextual factors in literacy interventions in the global south Yonas Mesfun Asfaha and Sonali Nag; 17. How teachers contribute to children's literacy success David K. Dickinson, Carol McDonald Connor and Elizabeth Burke Hadley; 18. The literacy ecology of the home: the case of rural Rwanda Elliott Friedlander and Claude Goldenberg; 19. Parental literacy support in monolingual and bilingual contexts Mila Schwartz; Global literacy: patterns and variations.