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William E. Nagy is a researcher affiliated with Seattle Pacific University in the United States. Their work primarily spans the field of Psychology, with particular emphasis on Developmental and Educational Psychology. Additional subfields connected to their research include Statistics and Probability, Education, and Cognitive Neuroscience.

The main topics covered in Nagy's research include:

  • Reading and Literacy Development
  • Cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills
  • Writing and Handwriting Education
  • Second Language Acquisition and Learning
  • Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism

Nagy's recent scholarly contributions include two papers published from 2020 to 2024. One study, published in 2020 in the Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, is titled "Morphological awareness and reading comprehension: Differential mediation mechanisms in native English speakers, fluent English learners, and limited English learners."

The other paper, published in 2024 in Scientific Studies of Reading, is titled "Cross-Language Morphological Analysis Improves Academic Word Learning for Multilingual Adolescents."

Among Nagy's frequent co-authors are Zhang Jie, Tzu-Jung Lin, Yu Liu, Amy C. Crosson, and Michael J. Kieffer. These collaborations suggest a focus on cross-disciplinary approaches related to language and educational psychology.

Publication venues where Nagy has contributed include:

  • Journal of Experimental Child Psychology
  • Scientific Studies of Reading

Best Publications

  • Learning Words from Context.

    William E. Nagy;Patricia A. Herman;Richard C. Anderson

  • How Many Words are There in Printed School English

    William E. Nagy;Richard C. Anderson

  • Learning Word Meanings From Context During Normal Reading

    William E. Nagy;Richard C. Anderson;Patricia A. Herman

  • Breadth and depth of vocabulary knowledge: Implications for acquisition and instruction.

    William E. Nagy;Patricia A. Herman

  • Cross-language transfer of phonological awareness.

    Aydin Y. Durgunoğlu;William E. Nagy;Barbara J. Hancin-Bhatt

  • Contributions of morphology beyond phonology to literacy outcomes of upper elementary and middle-school students.

    William E Nagy;Virginia W Berninger;Robert D. Abbott

  • Words as Tools: Learning Academic Vocabulary as Language Acquisition

    William Nagy;Dianna Townsend

  • Teaching Vocabulary to Improve Reading Comprehension

    William E. Nagy

  • Teaching Word Meanings

    Steven A. Stahl;William E. Nagy

  • On the role of context in first- and second-language vocabulary learning

    William E. Nagy

  • The acquisition of English derivational morphology

    Andrea Tyler;William E. Nagy

  • Growth in Phonological, Orthographic, and Morphological Awareness in Grades 1 to 6

    Virginia W. Berninger;Robert D. Abbott;William Nagy;Joanne Carlisle

  • Relationship of morphology and other language skills to literacy skills in at-risk second-grade readers and at-risk fourth-grade writers

    William Nagy;Virginia W. Berninger;Robert D. Abbott;Katherine Vaughan

  • Metalinguistic awareness and the vocabulary-comprehension connection.

    William Nagy

  • Spanish-English Bilingual Students' Use of Cognates in English Reading

    William E. Nagy;Georgia Earnest García;Aydin Y. Durgunoğlu;Barbara Hancin-Bhatt

  • Instructional treatment associated with changes in brain activation in children with dyslexia

    Elizabeth H. Aylward;T. L. Richards;V. W. Berninger;W. E. Nagy

  • Morphological Knowledge and Literacy Acquisition

    William E. Nagy;Joanne F. Carlisle;Amanda P. Goodwin

  • Incidental acquisition of word meaning from expositions with varied text features

    Patricia A. Herman;Richard C. Anderson;P. David Pearson;William E. Nagy

  • Morphological families in the internal lexicon

    William Nagy;Richard C. Anderson;Marlene Schommer;Judith Ann Scott

  • The Acquisition of Morphology: Learning the Contribution of Suffixes to the Meanings of Derivatives

    William E. Nagy;Irene Anna N. Diakidoy;Richard C. Anderson

Frequent Co-Authors

Virginia W. Berninger
Virginia W. Berninger University of Washington
Steven A. Stahl
Steven A. Stahl University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Richard C. Anderson
Richard C. Anderson University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Robert D. Abbott
Robert D. Abbott University of Washington
Todd L. Richards
Todd L. Richards University of Washington
Elizabeth Aylward
Elizabeth Aylward Seattle Children's Hospital
Dedre Gentner
Dedre Gentner Northwestern University
Joanne F. Carlisle
Joanne F. Carlisle University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Clayton R. Cook
Clayton R. Cook University of Minnesota
Wendy H. Raskind
Wendy H. Raskind University of Washington

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