Hande Ilgaz, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Department of Psychology

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Education

• PhD Lehigh University 2011
• Former Affiliation: Post-doctoral researcher at Temple University 2011-2013

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Research

Focus on children’s cognitive, language and socio-cognitive development.

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Selected Publications

Dickinson, D.K., Nesbitt, K.T., Collins, M.F., Hadley, E.,B., Newman, K., Rivera, B.L, Ilgaz, H., Nicolopoulou, A., Golinkoff, R.M., & Hirsh-Pasek-K. (2019). Teaching for breadth and depth of vocabulary knowledge: Learning from explicit and implicit instruction and the storybook texts. Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 47, 341-356.

Toub, T. S., Hassinger-Das, B., Nesbitt, K. T., Ilgaz, H., Weisberg, D. S., Hirsh-Pasek, K., Golinkoff, R. M., Nicolopoulou, A., & Dickinson, D. K. (2018). The Language of Play: Developing Preschool Vocabulary Through Play Following Shared Book-reading, Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 45, 1-17.