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The Psychology Of Reading (Paperback, New Ed)
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The Psychology Of Reading (Paperback, New Ed)
Series: The MIT Press
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In this book, two psychologists apply principles of
cognitivepsychology to understanding reading. In this book, two
psychologists apply principles of cognitive psychology to
understanding reading. Unlike most other books on the subject, this
one presents a consistent theoretical point of view and applies it
to the acquisition of reading and what the skilled reader does. The
first part of The Psychology of Reading covers perceptual learning,
the development of cognitive strategies, the development of
language, the nature of writing systems, and an extensive review of
the research on word recognition. In the second part of the book,
the authors look closely at abilities that children bring to school
before learning to read. They describe the acquisition of initial
reading skills and transition to skilled reading, the nature of the
reading process in adult readers, and the ways people learn from
reading. The book's third part takes up questions people frequently
ask about reading-such as reading by deaf children, dyslexia, the
influence of nonstandard dialects on learning to read, comparison
of reading achievement across different nations and different
languages, and the debatable virtues of "speed reading." The
authors conclude that reading cannot be understood simply as
associative learning-that is, the learning of an arbitrary code
connecting written symbols and their sounds. Reading involves
higher-level mental processes such as the discovery of rules and
order, and the extraction of structured, meaningful information.
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