Overview

In the late 1970s, reading research had become a true interdisciplinary endeavour with flavours of anthropology, artificial intelligence, cognitive psychology, educational psychology, linguistics, neuroscience and instructional technology. Given appropriate integration, results from these diverse perspectives can enhance our understanding of reading behaviour tremendously, both in its acquisition and in its skilled functioning. Thus, the enthusiasm for such interdisciplinary interaction had been quite intense for some time. In the years before publication, the National Reading Conference had been doing everything possible to accelerate this interaction. Originally published in 1981, the chapters in this book are the fruits of that effort. The research focuses on specifying skills in identifying alphabetical elements and the rules that govern their combination, on constructing models that characterize the recognition of individual words and the interpretation of texts, and on discovering what factors are responsible for blocking the normal acquisition process in many children. Chapters 2 to 12 of this book reflect these changing foci. They are nevertheless sandwiched by two chapters that deal with the historical background and future outlook of reading instruction.

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Author:   Ovid J.L. Tzeng ,  Harry Singer
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Volume:   28
Weight:   0.780kg
ISBN:  

9781138210776

ISBN 10:   1138210773
Pages:   332
Publication Date:   13 March 2017
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Preface. Overview: Relevancy of Experimental Psychology to Reading Instruction Ovid J.L. Tzeng 1. Teaching the Acquisition Phase of Reading Development: An Historical Perspective Harry Singer 2. Integration Processes in Word Recognition Neal F. Johnson 3. Understanding Word Perception: Clues from Studying the Word-Superiority Effect James C. Johnston 4. Words and Contexts Philip B. Gough, Jack A. Alford, Jr., and Pamela Holley-Wilcox 5. Processing Words in Context Kathryn T. Spoehr and Richard E. Schuberth 6. Exploring the Nature of a Basic Visual-Processing Component of Reading Ability Mark D. Jackson and James L. McClelland 7. Recoding of Printed Words to Internal Speech: Does Recoding Come Before Lexical Access? William P. Banks, Evelyn Oka and Sherrie Shugarman 8. Some Aspects of Language Perception by Eye: The Beginning Reader Carol A. Fowler 9. What Good is Orthographic Redundancy? Marilyn Jager Adams 10. Language Structure and Optimal Orthography William S.-Y. Wang 11. Linguistic Determinism: A Written Language Perspective Ovid J.L. Tzeng and Daisy L. Hung 12. Speech Understanding and Reading: Some Differences and Similarities Raymond S. Nickerson 13. Instruction in Reading Acquisition Harry Singer. Author Index. Subject Index.

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