Professor Eliane Segers

Professor Eliane Segers

Scientific Director

Professor Dr Eliane Segers has a chair in Learning and Technology at Radboud University, the Netherlands. Between 2016 and 2022, she had a second chair (via the Reading Foundation) on Reading and Digital Media at the University of Twente, the Netherlands. She is Scientific Director of the Dutch Center for Language Education, and has conducted several research projects regarding digital reading, and is the senior researcher in the current Dutch PIRLS project.

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