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Monique Sénéchal

Monique Sénéchal

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Psychology

D-Index
31
Citations
15222
World Ranking
11025
National Ranking
767

Overview

Monique Sénéchal is affiliated with Carleton University in Canada and is primarily engaged in research within the social sciences, focusing significantly on education and developmental psychology.

Their recent publications include:

  • Home Literacy Activities and Children's Reading Skills, Independent Reading, and Interest in Literacy Activities From Kindergarten to Grade 2, 2020, Frontiers in Psychology
  • The Development of Morphological Knowledge and Spelling in French, 2020, Frontiers in Psychology
  • The longitudinal impact of pre- and postnatal maternal depression and anxiety on children's cognitive and language development., 2024, Developmental Psychology
  • On language, children and books / Sobre lenguaje, infancia y libros, 2024, Journal for the Study of Education and Development Infancia y Aprendizaje

The topics addressed in their work cover various aspects of child development and education. These include:

  • Child Development and Digital Technology
  • Reading and Literacy Development
  • Educational Research and Pedagogy
  • Writing and Handwriting Education
  • Cognitive and Developmental Aspects of Mathematical Skills
  • Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development

Sénéchal has contributed to research in several subfields of study, notably:

  • Education
  • Developmental and Educational Psychology
  • Computer Networks and Communications
  • Statistics and Probability
  • Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

Frequent publication venues for Sénéchal include:

  • Frontiers in Psychology
  • Developmental Psychology
  • Journal for the Study of Education and Development Infancia y Aprendizaje

Collaboration is an aspect of Sénéchal's research profile, with frequent coauthors including:

  • Gintautas Šilinskas
  • Minna Torppa
  • Marja-Kristiina Lerkkanen
  • Ruth Mussar
  • Véronique Rey

Best Publications

  • Parental Involvement in the Development of Children’s Reading Skill: A Five-Year Longitudinal Study

    Monique Sénéchal;Jo-Anne LeFevre

  • Differential Effects of Home Literacy Experiences on the Development of Oral and Written Language

    Monique Sénéchal;Jo-Anne Lefevre;Eleanor M. Thomas;Karen E. Daley

  • A book reading intervention with preschool children who have limited vocabularies: the benefits of regular reading and dialogic reading

    Anne C Hargrave;Monique Sénéchal

  • Testing the Home Literacy Model: Parent Involvement in Kindergarten Is Differentially Related to Grade 4 Reading Comprehension, Fluency, Spelling, and Reading for Pleasure.

    Monique Sénéchal

  • The Differential Effect of Storybook Reading on Preschoolers' Acquisition of Expressive and Receptive Vocabulary.

    Monique Sénéchal

  • Knowledge of storybooks as a predictor of young children's vocabulary.

    Monique Sénéchal;Jo-Anne LeFevre;Ernie Hudson;E. Penelope Lawson

  • The Effect of Family Literacy Interventions on Children's Acquisition of Reading From Kindergarten to Grade 3: A Meta-Analytic Review

    Monique Sénéchal;Laura Young

  • Individual Differences in 4-Year-Old Children's Acquisition of Vocabulary during Storybook Reading.

    Monique Sénéchal;Eleanor Thomas;Jo-Ann Monker

  • Vocabulary acquisition through shared reading experiences

    Monique Senechal;Edward H. Cornell

  • Continuity and change in the home literacy environment as predictors of growth in vocabulary and reading.

    Monique Sénéchal;Jo-Anne LeFevre

  • Discussing stories: on how a dialogic reading intervention improves kindergartners' oral narrative construction.

    Rosemary Lever;Monique Sénéchal

  • On refining theoretical models of emergent literacy: The role of empirical evidence.

    Monique Sénéchal;Jo-Anne LeFevre;Brenda L Smith-Chant;Karen V Colton

  • Relations Among the Frequency of Shared Reading and 4-Year-Old Children's Vocabulary, Morphological and Syntax Comprehension, and Narrative Skills

    Monique Sénéchal;Stephanie Pagan;Rosemary Lever;Gene P. Ouellette

  • Age-related differences in the organization of parent-infant interactions during picture-book reading

    Monique Sénéchal;Edward H. Cornell;Lorri S. Broda

  • Pathways to literacy: a study of invented spelling and its role in learning to read.

    Gene Ouellette;Monique Sénéchal

  • Learning literacy skills at home: Parent teaching, expectations, and child interest.

    Felicity Martini;Monique Sénéchal

  • Storybook reading and parent teaching: links to language and literacy development.

    Monique Senechal;Jo-Anne LeFevre

  • A Window Into Early Literacy: Exploring the Cognitive and Linguistic Underpinnings of Invented Spelling

    Gene P. Ouellette;Monique Sénéchal

  • Orthographic and phonological processing skills in reading and spelling in Persian/English bilinguals

    Narges Arab-Moghaddam;Monique Senechal

  • Morphological Effects in Children's Spelling of French Words

    Monique Sénéchal

  • The Effect of Family Literacy Interventions On Children's Acquisition of Reading

    Monique Sénéchal

Frequent Co-Authors

Jo-Anne LeFevre
Jo-Anne LeFevre Carleton University
Marja-Kristiina Lerkkanen
Marja-Kristiina Lerkkanen University of Jyväskylä

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