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Jan Engelen
  • Warandelaan 2, Dante Building, room D 403

    5037 AB Tilburg

    Netherlands

20112025

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Research interests

Reading comprehension is a crucial skill at nearly all levels of education. At the same time, reading comprehension is a skill that many children, adolescents, and even adults struggle with. I am interested in the cognitive processes and mechanisms that contribute to reading comprehension and in how these differ across and, over time, within individuals. I am also interested in the question of how reading comprehension may be facilitated, for instance by text design, pictorial illustrations, or teaching of specific reading strategies.

Career

2015-present: Lecturer, Department of Communication and Cognition, Tilburg University.

2014-2015: Postdoctoral researcher, Welten Institute, Open University of The Netherlands.

2009-2014: Ph.D. student, Institute of Psychology, Erasmus University Rotterdam.

 

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Keywords

  • Cognition
  • Embodied Cognition
  • Discourse Studies
  • Language Psychology
  • Linguistics

Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

  1. SDG 4 - Quality Education
    SDG 4 Quality Education

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