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Krystina Raymond - Coach, EDI Officer, Educator, Teacher, and Researcher.
Languages spoken and written: French & English.
Inclusion, diversity, equity, anti-racism, and accessibility
Technology for learning and teaching
Prosodic sensitivity and punctuation
Language and reading development in bilingual children
Digital storybooks
Peer-Reviewed Journal Publications
Raymond, K., George, R., Cadez, R., Follows, M., Neveux, N., Hipfner-Boucher, K., Genesee, F., & Chen, X. (in press).
A School-Based Professional Learning Community Improving Equity and Inclusion for At-Risk Readers in French Immersion. Canadian Journal of Applied Linguistics.
Burchell, D., * Raymond, K., * Hipfner-Boucher, K. & Chen, X. (under review). Oral Language Skills Are Critical for Reading Comprehension in Immersion. Canadian Modern Language Review.
Joye, N., Raymond, K., Wang, S., Donovan, J., Dockrell, J., Marshall, C. (submitted). The spelling strategies of French and English students throughout primary school. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology.
Raymond, K., Burchell, D., Abuosbeh, Z., Wang, S., Kreuder, L., & Chen., X. (2024). A Meta-Analysis on the Relation Between Orthography and Reading in Bilingual Children. Manuscript in preparation.
Raymond, K., Lee, M., Deacon, H., Steele, J., & Chen., X. (2024). Examining the Concurrent Relationship between Prosodic Sensitivity and Wording Reading in Emergent Bilingual Readers. Manuscript in preparation.
Raymond, K., Lee, M., Rvachew S., & Chen, X. (2024). The Effects of Digital Storybook Features on Young Bilingual Children’s Reading Comprehension. Manuscript in preparation.
Raymond, K., Pesco, D., Chen, X., & Deacon, H. (2024). The Development of Strategies Used by English-French Bilingual Children to Discriminate Languages with a Shared Alphabet. Manuscript in preparation.
Wang, S., Raymond, K., Hipfner-Boucher, K., & Chen, X. (2024). Examining English phonological awareness among early French Immersion students in Canada. Manuscript in preparation.
Peer-Reviewed Book Chapters
Raymond, K., Abuosbeh, Z., Chin, M., Burchell, D., & Chen, X. (2022).
Best Practices for Language Teaching and Learning: In-Person and Online. In Every Teacher is a Language Teacher (volume 2). University of Ottawa (Bachelor of Education) Second Language Cohort. Book chapter.
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Burchell, D., Al Janaideh, R., Raymond, K., Baddour, J., & Chen, X. (2020).
Integrating First Languages in the Classroom to Help Facilitate Student Success. In (H. Elsherief & M. Masson, eds.), Every Teacher is a Language Teacher (volume 1). (pp. 55-71). University of Ottawa (Bachelor of Education) Second Language Cohort.
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Professional Articles
Raymond, K. & Forcey-Rodriguez, K. (2023, June 18). Steps towards (BILD-ing) a sense of belonging in Academia. Belonging, Identity, Language, Diversity Research Group (BILD) Blog: https://bild-lida.ca/blog/
Raymond, K., Hipfner-Boucher, K., & Chen, X. (2022, April 22). Supporting Bilingual Struggling Readers. Let’s Talk: Youth Psychology Blog. https://www.mcgillschoolpsychinstitute.com/raymon_et_al_blog.html
Burchell, D., Raymond, K., Selvachandran, J., Huo, M. & Chen, X. (2020, April). Le laboratoire linguistique multilingue présente : Langue et alphabétisation # 1. Communication, 13 (1 “Early Spring”).
Disarming Dyslexia: OISE researchers help revive, improve intervention program in Winnipeg.
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Presentations
Wang, S., Raymond, K., Hipfner-Boucher, K., & Chen, X. (2024, April 11-14). Diagnostic accuracy of French screeners with English criterion measures for FI bilingual students. [Individual Paper Presentation]. National Council on Measurement in Education Annual Meeting (NCME) 2024, Philadelphia, PA, United States. https://www.ncme.org/event/annual-meeting/upcoming-meeting2024
Raymond, K., Lee, M., Hipfner-Boucher, K., Deacon, H., Steele, J., & Chen, X. (2024, March 16-19). Prosodic sensitivity and reading in bilingual children. [Individual Paper Presentation]. American Association for Applied Linguistics 2024 Conference, Houston, TX, United States. https://www.aaal.org/events/aaal-2024-conference—houston-texas
Raymond, K., Lee, M., Hipfner-Boucher, K., Deacon, H., Steele, J., & Chen, X. (2023, December 2). Prosodic Sensitivity and Reading in Bilingual Children. [Online Paper Presentation]. The Virtual Words in the World 2023 conference. https://wordsintheworld.ca/wow-conference/conference-schedule-wow2023/
Raymond, K., Abuosbeh, Z., & Rafailov, S. (2023, October 25). Supporting Children in French Immersion and Multilingual Learning Environments. [Online Oral Presentation]. The Family Care Office at the University of Toronto. https://familycare.utoronto.ca/2023/10/25/supporting-children-in-french-immersion-and-multilingual-learning-environments/
Raymond, K., Wang, S., Hipfner-Boucher, K., & Chen, X. (2023, October 12). A Model for School-University Partnerships to Implement Early Universal Screening. [Poster presentation]. International Dyslexia Association Annual Conference 2023, Columbus, OH, United States. https://dyslexiaida.org/ida-announces-dyslexiacon-2023-october-12-14-2023-columbus-oh/
Raymond, K., Wang, S., Hipfner-Boucher, K., & Chen, X. (2023, April 14). Does CTOPP-2 predict at-risk status classified based on DIBELS, in English stream and French immersion students? [Online Paper Presentation]. Louis Riel School District, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
Raymond, K., Burchell, D., Abuosbeh, Z., Wang, S., Kreuder, L., & Chen, X. (2023, April 13-16). A Meta-Analysis on the Relation Between Orthography and Reading in Bilingual Children [Paper presentation]. AERA Annual Meeting 2023, Chicago, IL, United States. https://www.aera.net/Events-Meetings/Annual-Meeting/2023-Annual-Meeting
Wang, S., Raymond, K., Hipfner-Boucher, K., & Chen, X. (2023, April 13-16). Examining English Phonological Awareness Among Early French Immersion Students in Canada [Paper presentation]. AERA Annual Meeting 2023, Chicago, IL, United States. https://www.aera.net/Events-Meetings/Annual-Meeting/2023-Annual-Meeting
Wang, S., Raymond, K., Burchell, D., Abuosbeh, Z., Kreuder, L., & Chen, X. (2023, April 12-15). Examining the Dimensional Structure between Orthographic Processing and Word Reading: A Meta-Analysis [eBoard Session]. National Council on Measurement in Education (NCME) Annual Meeting, 2023, Chicago, IL, United States. https://www.ncme.org/event/annual-meeting/upcoming-meeting
Raymond, K., Wang, S., Hipfner-Boucher, K., & Chen, X. (2022, October). Partnering with school systems to understand factors impacting French immersion students’ academic performance. [Online Paper Presentation]. Focus on Research Lecture Series by OISE’s Associate Dean, Research, International & Innovation.
Burchell, D., Huo, M., Raymond, K., Steele, J. & Chen, X. (2022, July). The dynamic assessment of orthographic specificity and reading comprehension in emerging English-French bilingual students. In X. Chen (Chair), Word reading and vocabulary development among young monolingual and bilingual children. Symposium presented at the Society for the Scientific Study of Reading Twenty-Ninth Annual Meeting 2022, Newport Beach, CA, USA.
Huo, M., Burchell, D., Raymond, K., Wolter, J. & Chen, X. (2022, July). Dynamic Assessment of Phonological Awareness: A Bilingual Perspective. In X. Chen (Chair), Word reading and vocabulary development among young monolingual and bilingual children. Symposium presented at the Society for the Scientific Study of Reading Twenty-Ninth Annual Meeting 2022, Newport Beach, CA, USA.
Raymond, K., Huo, M., Burchell, D., Deacon, H., Steele, J. & Chen, X. (2022, July). Prosodic Sensitivity and Reading in English-French bilinguals. In H. Deacon (Chair), The ups and downs of reading: Prosodic sensitivity and reading in different languages and contexts. Symposium presented at the Development Conference 2022, Newport Beach, CA, USA.
Burchell, D., Huo, M., Raymond, K., Steele, J. & Chen, X. (2022, June). The dynamic assessment of orthographic specificity and reading comprehension in emerging English-French bilingual students [Paper Presentation]. Development Conference 2022, Calgary, Canada.
Raymond, K., Burchell, D., Huo, M., Deacon, H., Steele, J, & Chen, X. (2022. June). Prosodic sensitivity and reading in French immersion students [Paper Presentation]. Development Conference 2022, Calgary, Canada.
Raymond, K., Abuosbeh, Z., Chin, M. & Burchell, D. (2022, April). Best Teaching Practices for Multimodal Learning: Online Teaching and Learning. [Oral Presentation]. Ontario Modern Language Teachers’ Association (OMLTA) 2022, Virtual Spring Conference.
Raymond, K., Abuosbeh, Z., Chin, M. & Burchell, D. (2022, February). Best Teaching Practices for Multimodal Learning: Online Teaching and Learning. [Online Paper Presentation]. University of Ottawa Second Language Education Cohort (cL2c) Every Teacher is a Language Teacher Series.
Raymond, K, Chen X., & Genesee, F. (2021, December 8). A School-Based Early Reading Intervention for Struggling Readers in French immersion. [Online Paper Presentation]. Hosted by the Laidlaw Research Centre -Laidlaw Student Research Seminar. https://mobile.twitter.com/LaidlawCentre/status/1468681212701073 411/photo/1
Raymond, K., Chen, X., & Genesse, F. (2021, October 21-23). A School-Based Early Reading Intervention for Struggling Readers in French immersion. [Online Oral Presentation]. 2021 Annual International Dyslexia Association (IDA) Reading, Literacy & Learning Conference. www.dyslexiacon.org
Raymond, K., Chen, X., Pesco, D., & Deacon, H. (2021, July 13- 16). The development of strategies used by English-French bilingual children to discriminate languages with a shared alphabet. [Online Paper Presentation]. The 28th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Reading Conference. https://www.triplesr.org/twenty-eight-annual-meeting
Raymond, K., Al-Janaideh, R., Baddour, J., & Burchell, D. (2021). Best Practices to Support Multilingual Learners with Reading and Well-Being. [Online Paper Presentation]. Ontario Modern Language Teachers’ Association (OMLTA) 2021, Virtual Spring Conference.
Raymond, K., Abuosbeh, Z., Burchell, D. & Chen, X. (2021). The relationship between orthographic processing and word reading in English and French: A systematic review. [Online Paper Presentation]. The 2021 Graduate Student Research Conference at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education.
Al-Janaideh, R., Raymond, K., Baddour, J., & Burchell, D. (2021). Best Practices to Support Multilingual Learners with Reading and Well-Being. [Online Paper Presentation]. University of Ottawa Second Language Education Cohort (cL2c). Every Teacher is a Language Teacher Series.
Raymond, K., Chen, X., Pesco, D., & Deacon, H. (2020, July). The development of strategies used by English-French bilingual children to discriminate languages with a shared alphabet. The 27th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Reading Conference, Newport Beach, CA, USA. https://www.triplesr.org/twenty-seventh-annual-meeting (Conference canceled)
Burchell, D., Raymond, K., Baddour, J., & Al-Janaideh, R. (2020). Multilingualism: Using maternal languages in the classroom to help facilitate student success. [Workshop]. University of Ottawa Second Language Education Cohort (cL2c). Every Teacher is a Language Teacher Series. Ottawa, Canada
Raymond, K., Carter, E., & Neuman, S. (2018, October 16). World of Words Ready to Read. [Oral Presentation – Professional Development]. Acelero Learning, Camden/Philadelphia, PA, United States.
Raymond, K., Carter, E., & Neuman, S. (2018, October 24). World of Words Ready to Read. [Oral Presentation – Professional Development]. New York City Public Schools (NYC PS). Bronx, NY, United States.
Joye, N., Raymond, K. Donovan, J., Dockrell, J., & Marshall C. (2018). Assessing Verbal Self-Reports of Spelling Strategies: A Crosslinguistic Comparison of French and English Strategies at the End of Primary School. [Paper Presentation]. European Literacy Network (ELN): Literacy Summit. Porto, Portugal.
Raymond, K. (2018, February 14). Cultural Differences in Teaching Methods in India and Canada. [Invited Guest Speaker]. Broadcast on VTV NEWS and GTPL Digital Cable Service. Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India.
Raymond, K., Pesco., D, Deacon, H., & Chen., X. (2017, November 17). What Were You Thinking? Orthographic Processing Strategies in Word Reading by Second-Language Learners. [Invited Speaker]. Presentation for the Language and Literacy lab under the supervision of Dr. Carol J Hammer, Teachers College at Columbia University, New York, NY, United States.
Raymond, K., Pesco., D, Deacon, H., & Chen., X. (2017). What Were You Thinking? Orthographic Processing Strategies in Word Reading by Second-Language Learners. [Poster presentation]. Presentation at University College of London at the Centre for Language, Literacy and Numeracy: Research & Practice. London, UK
Raymond, K, Chen, X., & Pesco, D. (2017). What were you thinking? Orthographic processing strategies in word reading by children in French immersion and English instruction. [Poster presentation]. Society for the Scientific Study of Reading (SSSR) Annual Meeting, Halifax, NS, Canada.
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