Heather Winskel
Biographic Data
| ID | 122129 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Heather Winskel |
| GIVEN NAMES | Heather |
| FAMILY NAME | Winskel |
| SIGNATURE | WINSKEL H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Western Sydney University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4224-4380 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 20 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Primary school-aged children’s L2 anxiety
The Effect of Colour on Processing and Perception of Emojis in a Valence Categorisation Task
Previous research has found that colour can affect the interpretation and identification of facial expressions of emotion. Emojis are increasingly being used to communicate similar cues of emotion meaning in online communication. A question that has yet to be addressed is whether colour influences emoji perception in a similar manner to colour in the context of human face processing. This study seeks to empirically investigate whether presenting …
Self-bias in collectivist Vietnamese in their native and foreign language
Information related to oneself is given higher processing priority compared to other social information. In Western cultures, a robust self-bias effect is typically found using the perceptual associative matching task. The current study investigated the self-bias effect in collectivist Vietnamese in both the native language, Vietnamese, and the foreign language, English, using the perceptual associative matching task with person labels (self, mot…
Sex differences in eyewitness memory
Researchers in cognitive and forensic psychology have long been interested in the impact of individual differences on eyewitness memory. The sex of the eyewitness is one such factor, with a body of research spanning over 50 years that has sought to determine if and how eyewitness memory differs between males and females. This research has significant implications across the criminal justice system, particularly in the context of gendered issues s…
Scripts' influence on reading processes and cognition
Mirror-image discrimination in monoliterate English and Thai readers
The Mirror Generalization Process in Reading
Learning to Read in Multilingual Malaysia
Learning to read fluently is an extremely important skill for all children to acquire. The current article focuses on learning to read in the most widely spoken languages of Malaysia, namely, the national language Bahasa Melayu, Tamil and Chinese. These three unrelated languages have quite distinct writing systems. Bahasa Melayu uses alphabetic Rumi or Roman script, Tamil has an alphasyllabary, and Chinese has a logographic or morphosyllabic writ…
The Initial Functional Unit When Naming Words and Pseudowords in Thai
Developmental Milestone Expectations, Parenting Styles, and Self-Construal of Caregivers from Malay, Chinese and Indian Backgrounds in Malaysia
The developmental milestone expectations, parenting style, self-construal in Malaysian caregivers from Malay, Chinese and Indian backgrounds were examined. Striking commonalities emerged, which is in line with the shared collectivist characteristics of these three ethnic groups. Self-construal and parenting style were not significantly different between ethnic groups or mothers and fathers. Caregivers were more likely to endorse an authoritative …
Experimenting Different Jawi Spelling Conditions to Gauge their Cognitive Complexity
Although traditionally, Malay was predominantly written in the Arabic script ( Jawi ), the Roman script has become the standard script for the Malay language after the Second World War due to the relative complexity of Jawi in comparison to the Roman script. One factor that makes reading Jawi a cognitively complex process is the complex and confusing use of vowel letters in the spelling of Malay words in Jawi; hence, making the Jawi spelling syst…
The importance of Australian national identity to a sense of belonging of Anglo-Celtic and Chinese cultural groups in regional Australia
This study explored the primacy of importance of Australian national identity as underpinning belongingness of Anglo-Celtic and Chinese cultural groups. A mixed-method approach comprised focus groups and interviews was used. Australian national identity did not hold primacy of importance to a sense of belonging in either group, however family identities were of primary importance to both, together with cultural identity of the Chinese. Anglo-Celt…
South and Southeast Asian Psycholinguistics
A Comparison of Caretaker-Child Conversations About Past Personal Experiences in Thailand and Australia
This study investigated the conversations between caretakers and children about past personal experiences in Anglo-Australian in comparison with Thai culture. Ten Thai and 10 Anglo-Australian caretaker-child dyads were recruited from Bangkok and Sydney. Caretakers were requested to elicit past event narratives from their children, and the three most extended narratives about one topic were selected for analysis. Caretakers' elicitation strategies…
Obligatory grammatical categories and the expression of temporal events
Thai has imperfective aspectual morphemes that are not obligatory in usage, whereas English has obligatory grammaticized imperfective aspectual marking on the verb. Furthermore, Thai has verb final deictic-path verbs that form a closed class set. The current study investigated if obligatoriness of these grammatical categories in Thai and English affects the expression of co-occurring temporal events and actions depicted in three different short a…
An investigation into Malay numeral classifier acquisition through an elicited production task
The act of categorization and labeling is fundamental in human cognition and language development. By studying numeral classifier acquisition, researchers are able to examine how children learn to categorize and label objects in their environment using a constrained framework. The current study investigated the acquisition of eight shape-based numeral classifiers in Malay through an elicited production task in 140 6- to 9-year-old children. The a…
Towards effective partnerships in a collaborative problem-solving task
BACKGROUND: Collaborative learning is recognized as an effective learning tool in the classroom. In order to optimize the collaborative learning experience for children within a collaborative partnership, it is important to understand how to match the children by ability level, and whether assigning roles within these dyads is beneficial or not. AIMS: The current study investigated the effect of partnering children with different task-specific ab…
The expression of temporal relations in Thai children's narratives
The acquisition of temporal relations in the narratives of Thai children (aged 4 years, 6 years and 9 years) and of adults as control was investigated. Narratives were elicited using the `frog story'. Results revealed common and language-specific developmental patterns: (1) a developmental progression from relating events at a local to a more global level; (2) use of fewer forms that have a broader range of functions in the younger children; (3) …
The effects of an early history of otitis media on children's language and literacy skill development
Background. Otitis media (OM) or middle ear infection is a common childhood illness and is most frequent during the crucial first 3 years of life when speech and language categories are being established, which could potentially have a long-term effect on language and literacy skill development.Aims. The purpose of the current study was to ascertain the effects of a history of OM in early childhood on later language and literacy skill development…
The Acquisition of Temporal Reference Cross-Linguistically Using Two Acting-Out Comprehension Tasks
The Acquisition of Temporal Event Sequencing
Forty children aged between 3;6 and 7;6 years from each of three languages, English, Thai and Lisu, were asked to repeat sentences containing the bi-referential relations signalled by then, before, after, when, while, at the same time, until and since . Performance on this elicited imitation task revealed that, across languages, then has a relatively early acquisition and since has a relatively late acquisition. Language specific effects were als…
Towards effective partnerships in a collaborative problem-solving task
BACKGROUND: Collaborative learning is recognized as an effective learning tool in the classroom. In order to optimize the collaborative learning experience for children within a collaborative partnership, it is important to understand how to match the children by ability level, and whether assigning roles within these dyads is beneficial or not. AIMS: The current study investigated the effect of partnering children with different task-specific ab…
The Mirror Generalization Process in Reading
The Acquisition of Temporal Reference Cross-Linguistically Using Two Acting-Out Comprehension Tasks
Mirror-image discrimination in monoliterate English and Thai readers
The effects of an early history of otitis media on children's language and literacy skill development
Background. Otitis media (OM) or middle ear infection is a common childhood illness and is most frequent during the crucial first 3 years of life when speech and language categories are being established, which could potentially have a long-term effect on language and literacy skill development.Aims. The purpose of the current study was to ascertain the effects of a history of OM in early childhood on later language and literacy skill development…
Developmental Milestone Expectations, Parenting Styles, and Self-Construal of Caregivers from Malay, Chinese and Indian Backgrounds in Malaysia
The developmental milestone expectations, parenting style, self-construal in Malaysian caregivers from Malay, Chinese and Indian backgrounds were examined. Striking commonalities emerged, which is in line with the shared collectivist characteristics of these three ethnic groups. Self-construal and parenting style were not significantly different between ethnic groups or mothers and fathers. Caregivers were more likely to endorse an authoritative …
The importance of Australian national identity to a sense of belonging of Anglo-Celtic and Chinese cultural groups in regional Australia
This study explored the primacy of importance of Australian national identity as underpinning belongingness of Anglo-Celtic and Chinese cultural groups. A mixed-method approach comprised focus groups and interviews was used. Australian national identity did not hold primacy of importance to a sense of belonging in either group, however family identities were of primary importance to both, together with cultural identity of the Chinese. Anglo-Celt…
A Comparison of Caretaker-Child Conversations About Past Personal Experiences in Thailand and Australia
This study investigated the conversations between caretakers and children about past personal experiences in Anglo-Australian in comparison with Thai culture. Ten Thai and 10 Anglo-Australian caretaker-child dyads were recruited from Bangkok and Sydney. Caretakers were requested to elicit past event narratives from their children, and the three most extended narratives about one topic were selected for analysis. Caretakers' elicitation strategies…
The Acquisition of Temporal Event Sequencing
Forty children aged between 3;6 and 7;6 years from each of three languages, English, Thai and Lisu, were asked to repeat sentences containing the bi-referential relations signalled by then, before, after, when, while, at the same time, until and since . Performance on this elicited imitation task revealed that, across languages, then has a relatively early acquisition and since has a relatively late acquisition. Language specific effects were als…
The Acquisition of Temporal Reference Cross-Linguistically Using Two Acting-Out Comprehension Tasks
The effects of an early history of otitis media on children's language and literacy skill development
Background. Otitis media (OM) or middle ear infection is a common childhood illness and is most frequent during the crucial first 3 years of life when speech and language categories are being established, which could potentially have a long-term effect on language and literacy skill development.Aims. The purpose of the current study was to ascertain the effects of a history of OM in early childhood on later language and literacy skill development…
The expression of temporal relations in Thai children's narratives
The acquisition of temporal relations in the narratives of Thai children (aged 4 years, 6 years and 9 years) and of adults as control was investigated. Narratives were elicited using the `frog story'. Results revealed common and language-specific developmental patterns: (1) a developmental progression from relating events at a local to a more global level; (2) use of fewer forms that have a broader range of functions in the younger children; (3) …
Towards effective partnerships in a collaborative problem-solving task
BACKGROUND: Collaborative learning is recognized as an effective learning tool in the classroom. In order to optimize the collaborative learning experience for children within a collaborative partnership, it is important to understand how to match the children by ability level, and whether assigning roles within these dyads is beneficial or not. AIMS: The current study investigated the effect of partnering children with different task-specific ab…
Obligatory grammatical categories and the expression of temporal events
Thai has imperfective aspectual morphemes that are not obligatory in usage, whereas English has obligatory grammaticized imperfective aspectual marking on the verb. Furthermore, Thai has verb final deictic-path verbs that form a closed class set. The current study investigated if obligatoriness of these grammatical categories in Thai and English affects the expression of co-occurring temporal events and actions depicted in three different short a…
An investigation into Malay numeral classifier acquisition through an elicited production task
The act of categorization and labeling is fundamental in human cognition and language development. By studying numeral classifier acquisition, researchers are able to examine how children learn to categorize and label objects in their environment using a constrained framework. The current study investigated the acquisition of eight shape-based numeral classifiers in Malay through an elicited production task in 140 6- to 9-year-old children. The a…
A Comparison of Caretaker-Child Conversations About Past Personal Experiences in Thailand and Australia
This study investigated the conversations between caretakers and children about past personal experiences in Anglo-Australian in comparison with Thai culture. Ten Thai and 10 Anglo-Australian caretaker-child dyads were recruited from Bangkok and Sydney. Caretakers were requested to elicit past event narratives from their children, and the three most extended narratives about one topic were selected for analysis. Caretakers' elicitation strategies…
South and Southeast Asian Psycholinguistics
Experimenting Different Jawi Spelling Conditions to Gauge their Cognitive Complexity
Although traditionally, Malay was predominantly written in the Arabic script ( Jawi ), the Roman script has become the standard script for the Malay language after the Second World War due to the relative complexity of Jawi in comparison to the Roman script. One factor that makes reading Jawi a cognitively complex process is the complex and confusing use of vowel letters in the spelling of Malay words in Jawi; hence, making the Jawi spelling syst…
The importance of Australian national identity to a sense of belonging of Anglo-Celtic and Chinese cultural groups in regional Australia
This study explored the primacy of importance of Australian national identity as underpinning belongingness of Anglo-Celtic and Chinese cultural groups. A mixed-method approach comprised focus groups and interviews was used. Australian national identity did not hold primacy of importance to a sense of belonging in either group, however family identities were of primary importance to both, together with cultural identity of the Chinese. Anglo-Celt…
Developmental Milestone Expectations, Parenting Styles, and Self-Construal of Caregivers from Malay, Chinese and Indian Backgrounds in Malaysia
The developmental milestone expectations, parenting style, self-construal in Malaysian caregivers from Malay, Chinese and Indian backgrounds were examined. Striking commonalities emerged, which is in line with the shared collectivist characteristics of these three ethnic groups. Self-construal and parenting style were not significantly different between ethnic groups or mothers and fathers. Caregivers were more likely to endorse an authoritative …
Learning to Read in Multilingual Malaysia
Learning to read fluently is an extremely important skill for all children to acquire. The current article focuses on learning to read in the most widely spoken languages of Malaysia, namely, the national language Bahasa Melayu, Tamil and Chinese. These three unrelated languages have quite distinct writing systems. Bahasa Melayu uses alphabetic Rumi or Roman script, Tamil has an alphasyllabary, and Chinese has a logographic or morphosyllabic writ…
The Initial Functional Unit When Naming Words and Pseudowords in Thai
The Mirror Generalization Process in Reading
Scripts' influence on reading processes and cognition
Mirror-image discrimination in monoliterate English and Thai readers
Sex differences in eyewitness memory
Researchers in cognitive and forensic psychology have long been interested in the impact of individual differences on eyewitness memory. The sex of the eyewitness is one such factor, with a body of research spanning over 50 years that has sought to determine if and how eyewitness memory differs between males and females. This research has significant implications across the criminal justice system, particularly in the context of gendered issues s…
The Effect of Colour on Processing and Perception of Emojis in a Valence Categorisation Task
Previous research has found that colour can affect the interpretation and identification of facial expressions of emotion. Emojis are increasingly being used to communicate similar cues of emotion meaning in online communication. A question that has yet to be addressed is whether colour influences emoji perception in a similar manner to colour in the context of human face processing. This study seeks to empirically investigate whether presenting …
Self-bias in collectivist Vietnamese in their native and foreign language
Information related to oneself is given higher processing priority compared to other social information. In Western cultures, a robust self-bias effect is typically found using the perceptual associative matching task. The current study investigated the self-bias effect in collectivist Vietnamese in both the native language, Vietnamese, and the foreign language, English, using the perceptual associative matching task with person labels (self, mot…
Primary school-aged children’s L2 anxiety
Psychology (19 works) · Linguistics (14 works) · Computer Science (12 works) · Cognition (7 works) · Reading and Literacy Development (7 works) · Cognitive psychology (6 works) · Developmental psychology (6 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Artificial Intelligence (4 works) · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (4 works)