Reading-Writing Connections: Towards Integrative Literacy Science

Teresa Limpo is Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Psychology and Education Sciences of the University of Porto. She conducts research on the cognitive and motivational processes in writing and develops evidence-based writing interventions to promote writing skills in school-aged children. Regularly, she creates and implements professional development courses to train teachers in using these practices.

R. Malatesha Joshi, Ph.D., is Professor of Reading/Language Arts Education and Educational Psychology at Texas A&M University and a fellow of the American Educational Research Association. He is the Editorof the Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal as well as the Series Editor of Springer’s Literacy Studies: Perspectives from Cognitive Neurosciences, Linguistics, Psychology, and Education.