Faculty

Education:
BA (Hons) (Memorial University of Newfoundland)
PhD (University of Alberta)

Phone: 403.440.8537
E-mail: tkwong@mtroyal.ca

TEACHING

• PSYC 1106: Introductory Psychology II for Majors: Introduction to Psychology II: Career Readiness – Work Integrated Learning
• PSYC 2235 Life-Span Development
• PSYC 3351 Topics in Child Development
• PSYC 4474: Contemporary Issues in Human Development
• PSYC 4901 Advanced Topics in Infancy and Childhood: Child Cognitive Development

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Spelling Proficiency in Above Average Readers

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

Kwong, T., Desjarlais, M., & Duffy, M. (2015). Aer Yuo Looking Cloesly?: Even Good Spellers are Impacted by Partial Cues Reading. Written Language and Literacy, 18(1), 82-103 (In Print).

 

Kwong, T., & Brachman, K. (2014, September 8). Strategy Choice Mediates the Link Between Auditory Processing and Spelling. PLoS ONE, 9(9) (In Print).

 

Varnhagen, C.K., McFall, G.P., Pugh, N., Routlege, L., Sumida-MacDonald, H., & Kwong, T.E. (2010). lol: New language and spelling in instant messaging. Reading and Writing, 23, 719-733 (In Print).

 

Kwong, T.E., & Varnhagen, C.K. (2005). Strategy development and learning to spell new words: Generalization of a process. Developmental Psychology, 41, 148-159 (In Print).

 

Kwong, T.E., & Nicoladis, E. (2005). Talk to me: Parental linguistic practices may hold the key to reducing incidence of language impairment and delay among multiple birth children. The Journal of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology, 29, 6-13 (In Print).

 

Varnhagen, C.K., Mansour, J., Greene, T., Kwong, T.E., Colter, J., Anderson, K., & Arkinson, B. (2004). Developing and implementing online information literacy tutorials in large undergraduate classes. Proceedings of World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia & Telecommunications Proceedin, 2316-2322 (In Print).

 

SELECTED CONFERENCES

 

Kwong, T. E. & Fuerstenberg, F. (2021, June. The magic of looking without seeing: Unexpectedly poor spellers may look at letter strings without seeing them all. Poster presented at Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour and Cognitive Science (online).

*Boila, V. C. & Kwong, T. E. (2019, May 4). The mere presence of a cell phone and academic ability. Poster presented at the Banff Annual Seminar in Cognitive Science (BASICS), Banff, AB. (student-led)

Kwong, T.E., & Hintz, J.E. (2018, July 4). Looking v. Seeing: Unexpectedly Poor Spellers Look as Much But See Less. Presented at Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour and Cognitive Science (St. John’s, Newfoundland).

Kwong, T. E. (2017, July). Confessions of a (Recovering?) Technophobe: Braving Technology In (and Out of) the Classroom. Presented at Vancouver International Conference on the Teaching of Psychology (Vancouver, BC)

Kwong, T.E., & Joseph, J.J. (2016, June 24). Raed Caerfully: Unexpectedly Poor Spellers are Prone to Partial Cue Reading. Presented at Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour and Cognitive Science (Ottawa, Ontario).

 

Joseph, J.J., & Kwong, T.E. (2016, April 30). (Un)expectedly Poor Spellers: Do Study Results Depend on the Measure. Presented at Banff Annual Seminar in Cognitive Science (Banff, Alberta).

 

Kwong, T., & Brachman, K. (2014, May 8). Believe Half You Hear: Correlations Between Auditory Processing and Spelling are Mitigated by Strategy Choice. Presented at Development 2014: A Canadian Conference on Developmental Psychology (Ottawa (Carleton University)).

Kwong, T., Desjarlais, M., & Duffy, M. (2013, June 7). Cna Yuo Raed Tihs? Partial Cue Reading and Spelling Ability. Presented at Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour and Cognitive Science (University of Calgary).

 

Kwong, T.E., & Duffy, M. (2012, July 10). Do You Hear What I Hear?: Are Differences in Auditory Processing and Strategy Use Related to Differences in Spelling Ability?. Presented at International Society for the Study of Behavioural Development (Edmonton, Alberta).