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Reading and Understanding: An Introduction to the Psychology of Reading

Reading and Understanding: An Introduction to the Psychology of Reading


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This volume presents a review of current thinking about the psychology of reading, and is suitable as an advanced text for psychology, education and linguistics students. It introduces the nature of problems facing the reader who is to extract meaningful information from the printed symbols. A description of text and of the cognitive processes necessary for transforming visible characters into meanings is, therefore, the starting point. This introduces the notion of the "computational problem" facing the skilled reader: what kinds of information are available, and what are the processes necessary for recovering that information? Also necessary to consider is what is meant by the skill of reading: what cognitive changes occur as we become skilled readers, and how does word recognition and reading develop as we acquire this skill? The chapters deal with: word recognition, reviewing cognitive models of lexical access, and the variations in recognition that need to be taken into account by any model of the internal lexicon; reading development, reviewing the component processes in reading skill and their development and use by readers of differing ability, including developmental dyslexics, poor readers, skilled readers and speed readers; cognitive neuropsychological processes, and specifically the acquired dyslexias and what they can tell us about normal reading processes; microprocesses, reviewing the role of eye movements in reading, theories of eye movement control, and the use of eye movement recordings as a tool to investigate on-line reading processes; and text comprehension, reviewing processes involved in the integration of words and propositions within sentences and the use of inference by skilled readers.

Table of Contents:
Part 1 Reading as skilled information processing: information and knowledge; the processing of information; skilled information processing. Part 2 Cognitive processes in word recognition: sources of variation in lexical access; models of word recognition. Part 3 Reading development and reading difficulties: individual differences in acquisition and skill - phonetics and the use of spelling-to-sound rules; reading as a psycholinguistic guessing game; reading skill and the use of context; phonological awareness and phonological memory; phonological awareness for beginning readers. Part 4 Neuropsychological studies of reading: the acquired dyslexics; types of acquired dyslexias; lexical and non-lexical routes to pronunciation; grapheme-phoneme correspondence theory; is the lexicon morphemically organized?; similarities with developmental dyslexia; contributions from the neuropsychology of reading. Part 5 The role of eye movements in reading: processing during fixations; theories of eye guidance; individual differences in reading. Part 6 Reading comprehension: from words to propositions and inferences: thinking while reading; from words to propositions; from propositions to inferences; words, propositions, inferences and the reader's mental model.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780631179498
  • Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
  • Publisher Imprint: Blackwell Publishers
  • Height: 229 mm
  • Sub Title: An Introduction to the Psychology of Reading
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0631179496
  • Publisher Date: 12 Apr 1996
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Weight: 543 gr


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