Project Spanish Federal Research Fund: "Musical aptitude, reading fluency and intercultural perception among european university students"

This research (funding by the Spanish Federal Research Fund (FFI2016-75452-R; Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad. I+D+i Orientada a los Retos de la Sociedad; PI: M Carmen Fonseca Mora (Universidad de Huelva), 85.000€) is confined to the analysis of the silent reading fluency and its role in the identification of reading profiles with difficulties among adult and university learners who learn Spanish as a foreign language in different European countries. The objective of this study is to understand how the development of the silent reading fluency —the main activity on expert readers— intervenes with reading comprehension in general and which is the impact of certain factors, such as musical aptitude and training, as well as the knowledge of and reading comprehension in different languages.

This project hosts two doctoral projects at KU Leuven: José Manuel Foncubierta (cotutelle Huelva, thesis defended on 24/9/2020), Helena Legaz (30/11/2017 - 30/11/2021).