Prof Jane Oakhill

Biography

BEd DPhil (Sussex) C.Psychol

I have worked on various research projects (including deductive reasoning in children and adults, circadian variations in human performance, and adult language comprehension) but have always maintained a research interest in children’s reading comprehension (in particular, individual differences).  I have published widely (including about 90 refereed journal articles and have co-authored or edited nine books).  My books in the area of reading and comprehension include: Becoming a Skilled Reader, with Alan Garnham, Children's Problems in Text Comprehension, with Nicola Yuill, Reading Comprehension Difficulties: Processes and Remediation, with Cesare Cornoldi, Reading development and the teaching of reading: A psychological perspective, with Roger Beard and Children’s comprehension problems in oral and written language, with Kate Cain.  In the area of thinking and reasoning, I published a textbook: Thinking and Reasoning, co-authored with Alan Garnham.

Office hours (during term time):

Tuesdays 11-12

Wednesdays 11-12

Garnham, Alan, Gabriel, Ute, Sarrasin, Oriane, Gygax, Pascal and Oakhill, Jane (2012) Gender representation in different languages and grammatical marking on pronouns: when beauticians, musicians, and mechanics remain men. Discourse Processes, 49 (6). pp. 481-500. ISSN 1532-6950

Oakhill, Jane V and Cain, Kate (2012) The precursors of reading ability in young readers: evidence from a four-year longitudinal study. Scientific Studies of Reading, 16 (2). pp. 91-121. ISSN 1088-8438

Oakhill, Jane, Yuill, Nicola and Garnham, Alan (2011) The differential relations between verbal, numerical and spatial working memory abilities and children's reading comprehension. International Electronic Journal of Elementary Education , 4 (1). pp. 83-106. ISSN 1307-9298

Cain, Kate and Oakhill, Jane (2011) Matthew effects in young readers: Reading comprehension and reading experience aid vocabulary development. Journal of Learning Disabilities, 44 (5). pp. 431-443. ISSN 0022-2194

Coe, J. E. L. and Oakhill, Jane V. (2011) txtN is ez f u no h2 rd': The relation between reading ability and text-messaging behaviour. Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 27 (1). pp. 4-17. ISSN 0266-4909

Oakhill, Jane, Yuill, Nicola and Garnham, Alan (2011) The differential relations between verbal, numerical and spatial working memory abilities and children's reading comprehension. International Electronic Journal of Elementary Education, 4 (1). pp. 83-106. ISSN 1307-9298

Thevenot, C and Oakhill, Jane (2008) The strategic use of alternative representations in arithmetic word problem solving. International Journal of Psychology, 43 (3-4). p. 530. ISSN 0020-7594

Gabriel, U, Gygax, Pascal, Sarrasin, O, Garnham, Alan and Oakhill, Jane (2008) Au pairs are rarely male: Norms on the gender perception of role names across English, French, and German. Behavior Research Methods, 40 (1). pp. 206-221.

Gygax, Pascal, Gabriel, Ute, Sarrasin, Oriane, Oakhill, Jane and Garnham, Alan (2008) Generically intended, but specifically interpreted: when beauticians, musicians, and mechanics are all men. Language and Cognitive Processes, 23 (3). 464 - 485. ISSN 0169-0965