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Sonja Ugen

Laboratoire Cognition Langage Développement (LCLD)
Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB)
CP191
Av. F.D. Roosevelt
1050 Bruxelles
Belgium

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+32 2 650 3621

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+32 2 650 2209

Email:

sugen@ulb.ac.be

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Education  


November 2003:

Masters of Developmental Psychology, Lancaster University (UK)

September 2004:

Diplôme d'Etudes Approfondies en Sciences psychologiques, ULB (B)

August 2005: International Summer School on Literacy (NL)
September, 2007:European Course in Advanced Statistics on Structural Equation Models (F)

September 2008:

PhD in psychological sciences and education, ULB (B) entitled "Acquisition of reading and spelling skills of German-French biliterate children in Luxembourg'  under the supervision of Jacqueline Leybaert (ULB) and in collaboration with Sylvie Bodé (Université du Luxembourg)



Research 

Multilingual children's reading and spelling acquisition in German and in French (in the Luxemburgish educational system) and manifestations of reading disorders in a multilingual context


Publications and Communications

Ugen, S., Bodé, S., & Leybaert, J. (2007, August). Spelling strategies of good and poor biliterate spellers in their second acquired language. Poster presented at th XV conference of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology (ESCoP), Marseille, France.

Ugen, S., Bodé, S., & Leybaert, J. (2007, July). Differences of the spelling performances of biliterate Luxemburgish and Romanophone good and poor spellers in German and French. Poster presented at the 14th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Reading in Prague, Czech Republic.

Ugen, S., Bodé, S., & Leybaert, J. (2007, June). Das Leselernen im multilinguistischen Kontext von guten und schwachen Schülern in Deutsch und Französisch [Reading acquisition of poor and good biliterate spellers in German and French]. Paper presented at the 11th conference of the Swiss Dyslexia association in Zurich, Switzerland.

Ugen, S., Bodé, S., & Leybaert, J. (2007, June). Recognizing and generating implicit orthotactic knowledge : No difference between good and poor spellers ! Poster presented at the annual conference of the Belgian Association for Psychological Science (BAPS), Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium.

Ugen, S., Bodé, S., & Leybaert, J. (2006, November). Implicit orthographic knowledge of biliterate children: No difference between good and poor spellers. Poster presented at the international symposium in honour of Professor Jesus Alegria: Reading, Spelling & Deafness, Brussels, Belgium.

Bodé, S., Ugen, S., & Serres, J. (2006, November). Differences of Luxemburgish and Romanophone 11 year old's spellings strategies in German and in French. Poster presented at the international symposium in honour of Professor Jesus Alegria: Reading, Spelling & Deafness, Brussels, Belgium.

Ugen, S., Bodé, S., & Leybaert, J. (2006, May). Reading comprehension and orthographic skills of multilingual children's first acquired language at school. Poster presented at the annual conference of the Belgian Association for Psychological Science (BAPS), Liège, Belgium.

Ugen, S., Bodé, S., & Leybaert, J. (2005, August). Influence the first acquired language has on the second on poor and good readers/spellers. Paper presented at th XIV conference of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology (ESCoP), Leiden, The Netherlands.

Ugen, S., Bodé, S., & Leybaert, J. (2005, August). Learning to read and spell in Luxembourg: Acquisition of transparent and opaque orthographic systems in Primary School. Paper presented at the Fourth European Graduate School on literacy, Egmond aan Zee, The Netherlands.