Dr Nicole Swart

Senior Researcher

Nicole Swart started working at the Dutch Center for Language Education in 2017 after completing her PhD at the Radboud University in Nijmegen, the Netherlands on the role of vocabulary in reading comprehension in the upper primary grades. Since then, she has participated in various reading comprehension oriented research projects, including PIRLS.

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Teacher’s Bookshelf: Reading comprehension in a digital world – a school example

Sept 15,2025

Our latest edition of Teacher’s Bookshelf features the open-access resource Teaching Reading Comprehension in a Digital World: Evidence-Based Contributions Using PIRLS and Digital Texts – a collaboration between the IEA and researchers from the Dutch Centre for Language Education. This extract is from the chapter on good practices for teaching and shares an example from Talbot Senior National School, Ireland.

literacy, reading, digital technology, education resources, international, short articles

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