Listen in as we talk to Dr. Young-Suk Grace Kim, Ed.D., professor and senior associate dean of the School of Education at the University of California, Irvine about the importance of listening comprehension in developing skilled readers.

In this podcast, we talk about her recent journal article, The Relations of Online Reading Processes (Eye Movements) with Working Memory, Emergent Literacy Skills, and Reading Proficiency.

Dr. Kim received her doctorate in education from Harvard University. Dr. Kim received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) by President Barack Obama in 2012; and the Developing Scholar Award and University Teaching Award at the Florida State University. She currently serves as an associate editor for the Journal of Educational Psychology, and will be the incoming Editor-in-Chief for the Scientific Studies of Reading. 

Her career has included classroom teaching in San Francisco, California, and pre-service teacher training. Professor Kim’s primary research areas include language, cognition, and literacy acquisition and instruction across languages and writing systems. Her research has been supported by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES), the U. S. Department of Education, the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), and the National Science Foundation (NSF).

This podcast episode was sponsored by Heggerty Phonemic Awareness.