Professor Kate Cain

Distinguished Professor

Research Interests

My research concerns the different cognitive and language-related skills that underpin the development of reading and listening comprehension, both in atypical and typical populations. To date, this work has identified several higher-level skill weaknesses that may be causally linked to poor comprehension, including the ability to generate inferences, knowledge and use of reading strategies, and the ability to construct coherent and integrated narratives. My work has shown that these skills (assessed as oral language skills in preschool and as oral and written language skills in the early school years) predict reading comprehension development. Current projects are examining (a) preschool predictors of early reading acquisition, (b) the structure and predictors of reading comprehension in adolescence, (c) the similarities and differences in reading and learning from print and digital, and (d) engagement and learning from digital reading supplements.


02/05/2023 → 29/02/2028
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01/06/2020 → 15/08/2021
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18/11/2019 → 30/11/2023
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01/11/2019 → 29/02/2024
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01/11/2019 → 31/10/2025
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01/09/2018 → 31/05/2024
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01/08/2018 → 31/07/2019
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01/04/2018 → 31/01/2024
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01/03/2018 → 31/08/2018
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01/10/2013 → 31/03/2015
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01/10/2013 → 31/12/2014
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31/03/2013 → 30/03/2018
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01/01/2013 → 31/03/2015
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01/09/2012 → 29/03/2015
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01/02/2012 → …
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01/10/2011 → 30/09/2015
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01/08/2010 → 31/07/2015
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01/04/2007 → …
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  • DSI - Society
  • Language and Cognition