Marcin Szczerbiński, PhD

Marcin Szczerbiński

Department of Human Communication Sciences
The University of Sheffield
31 Claremont Crescent
Sheffield
S10 2TA
UK


Tel: +44 (0) 114 222 2419
Fax: +44 (0) 114 273 0547

email : m.szczerbinski@sheffield.ac.uk

Biography

I am a graduate of the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland, where I studied psychology. My PhD project (on reading and spelling acquisition in Polish) was completed in 2001 at the Department of Human Communication Science, UCL, where I also worked briefly as a teaching assistant. I joined the Department in February 2001. I have also worked intermittently as an EFL teacher, translator and interpreter.

Research Interests

  • Literacy (especially cognitive processes involved in processing written language; effective literacy instruction; early intervention to prevent literacy difficulties)
  • Numeracy
  • Specific learning difficulties (especially developmental dyslexia)
  • Psychometric assessment

Professional Activities

I am a member of Polish Dyslexia Association and a regular invited speaker at its workshops and conferences

I am also a statistical consultant for Cognitive Linguistics (See Links)

Current Projects

  • Developing tests for early identification of literacy difficulties in Polish children (Olga Pelc-Pękala, Kraków)
  • The correlates of visual cognition. Is a global / local distinction in human vision valid? (Liz Milne, Sheffield)
  • Cognitive mechanisms of developmental dyslexia (Agnes Reid, Cambridge; Ewa Iskierka-Kasperek, Kraków)
  • A cross-linguistic database of words in children’s reading materials in English, Czech, Slovak, and Polish (Marketa Caravolas, Liverpool)

Collaborators

Liz Milne

Ewa Dabrowska

Markéta Caravolas

PhD students

Nicolai Klessinger
Relationship between mathematical cognition and language

Jenny Leyden
Relationships between spoken language skills in the early years and educational attainment of children living in areas of socio-economic deprivation

Silke Fricke
Preschool predictors of literacy difficulties in monolingual German children and successive bilingual child learners of German

Selected Publications

  • Szczerbinski, M. (2003). Dyslexia in Polish. In: Dyslexia in different languages: Cross-linguistic comparisons. N. Goulandris (Ed.). Whurr Publishers, pp. 68-91
  • Dabrowska, E., & Szczerbinski, M. (2006). Polish children’s productivity with case marking: the role of regularity, type frequency, and phonological diversity. Journal of Child Language, 33, 3, 559-597.
  • Reid, A., Szczerbinski, M., Iskierka-Kasperek, E., & Hansen, P. (2007). Cognitive profiles of adult developmental dyslexics: Theoretical implications. Dyslexia, 13, 1, 1-24.
  • Klessinger, N., Szczerbinski, M., & Varley, R. (2007). Algebra in a man with severe aphasia. Neuropsychologia, 45, 8, 1642-1648
  • Szczerbinski, M. (2007). “Dysleksja rozwojowa: próba definicji” [Developmental dyslexia: an attempt at definition]. In: M Kostka-Szymanska (ed.). Dysleksja – problem znany czy nieznany? [Dyslexia: a familiar problem?] Lublin: Marie Curie University Press, pp. 47-70.

    Preprint available from:

http://www.dysleksja.strefa.pl/publikacje.html

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