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Liliana Salvador

Assistant Professor

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Biographical Note

Liliana Salvador holds a degree in Philosophy from Universidade Nova de Lisboa (2003), a Master’s degree in Psychology from ISPA (2010), and a PhD in Educational Psychology from the same institution (2017). She is an Assistant Professor at ISPA- Instituto Universitário, where she teaches various courses in the field of psychological assessment and intervention in Educational Psychology, and a full member of EDUNOVA.ISPA, where she collaborates on projects related to written language acquisition, including difficulties in reading and writing, orthography, teacher’s perceptions on learning, parental involvement, among others. She is the author and co-author of several peer-reviewed scientific articles published in national and international journals. She also contributes to projects involving the supervision of school psychologists and teacher’s professional development.

Research Interests

  • Early literacy acquisition
  • Reading and writing difficulties
  • Spelling programmes (pre-school and primary grade students) and its impact on reading
  • Parental involvement projects
  • Teacher’s professional development

Relevant Publications

Salvador, L. & Alves Martins, M. (2024). From spelling to reading: An intervention program with children at risk of reading failure. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 244, 105944. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2024.105944

Silva, C., Peixoto, F., & Salvador, L. (2024). “With a little help from my friends”: Effects of a self-reflection tool and social interaction on orthographic performance. Journal of Writing Research. Retrieved from https://www.jowr.org/index.php/jowr/article/view/865

Silva, C, Peixoto, F., & Salvador, L. (2021) To give someone a fish or teach them how to fish?: effects of a self-reflection tool on orthographic performance in Portuguese children. Reading and Writing, 43(1), 2481-2503. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11145-021-10154-5

Salvador, L., & Alves Martins, M. (2018). The impact of a writing programme on reading acquisition of at-risk first grade children. Bellaterra Journal of Teaching & Learning Language & Literature, 11(2), 74-90. https://doi.org/10.5565/rev/jtl3.772 10.5565/rev/jtl3.772

Alves-Martins, M., Salvador, L., & Fernández, M. M. (2017). “Otro niño lo escribió así”. Ayuda educativa y resultados de actividades de escritura inventada. Revista de Educación, 377, 161–186. https://doi.org/10.4438/1988-592X-RE-2017-377-357

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