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Reading is a highly complex skill that is prerequisite to success
in many societies in which a great deal of information is
communicated in written form. Since the 1970s, much has been
learned about the reading process from research by cognitive
psychologists. This book summarizes that important work and puts it
into a coherent framework. The book's central theme is how readers
go about extracting information from the printed page and
comprehending the text. Like its predecessor, this thoroughly
updated 2nd Edition encompasses all aspects of the psychology of
reading with chapters on writing systems, word recognition, the
work of the eyes during reading, inner speech, sentence processing,
discourse processing, learning to read, dyslexia, individual
differences and speed reading. Psychology of Reading, 2nd Edition,
is essential reading for undergraduates, graduates, and researchers
in cognitive psychology and could be used as a core textbook on
courses on the psychology of reading and related topics. In
addition, the clear writing style makes the book accessible to
people without a background in psychology but who have a personal
or professional interest in the process of reading.
Reading is a highly complex skill that is prerequisite to success
in many societies in which a great deal of information is
communicated in written form. Since the 1970s, much has been
learned about the reading process from research by cognitive
psychologists. This book summarizes that important work and puts it
into a coherent framework. The book's central theme is how readers
go about extracting information from the printed page and
comprehending the text. Like its predecessor, this thoroughly
updated 2nd Edition encompasses all aspects of the psychology of
reading with chapters on writing systems, word recognition, the
work of the eyes during reading, inner speech, sentence processing,
discourse processing, learning to read, dyslexia, individual
differences and speed reading. Psychology of Reading, 2nd Edition,
is essential reading for undergraduates, graduates, and researchers
in cognitive psychology and could be used as a core textbook on
courses on the psychology of reading and related topics. In
addition, the clear writing style makes the book accessible to
people without a background in psychology but who have a personal
or professional interest in the process of reading.
Writing is one of humankind's greatest inventions, and modern
societies could not function if their citizens could not read and
write. How do skilled readers pick up meaning from markings on a
page so quickly, and how do children learn to do so? The chapters
in the Oxford Handbook of Reading synthesize research on these
topics from fields ranging from vision science to cognitive
psychology and education, focusing on how studies using a cognitive
approach can shed light on how the reading process works. To set
the stage, the opening chapters present information about writing
systems and methods of studying reading, including those that
examine speeded responses to individual words as well as those that
use eye movement technology to determine how sentences and short
passages of text are processed. The following section discusses the
identification of single words by skilled readers, as well as
insights from studies of adults with reading disabilities due to
brain damage. Another section considers how skilled readers read a
text silently, addressing such issues as the role of sound in
silent reading and how readers' eyes move through texts. Detailed
quantitative models of the reading process are proposed throughout.
The final sections deal with how children learn to read and spell,
and how they should be taught to do so. These chapters review
research with learners of different languages and those who speak
different dialects of a language; discuss children who develop
typically as well as those who exhibit specific disabilities in
reading; and address questions about how reading should be taught
with populations ranging from preschoolers to adolescents, and how
research findings have influenced education. The Oxford Handbook of
Reading will benefit researchers and graduate students in the
fields of cognitive psychology, developmental psychology,
education, and related fields (e.g., speech and language pathology)
who are interested in reading, reading instruction, or reading
disorders.
The last 20 years have witnessed a revolution in reading research.
Cognitive psychologists, using high-speed computers to aid in the
collection and analysis of data, have developed tools that have
begun to answer questions that were previously thought
unanswerable. These tools allow for a "chronometric," or
moment-to-moment, analysis of the reading process. Foremost among
them is the use of the record of eye movements to help reveal the
underlying perceptual and cognitive processes of reading.
This volume provides a coherent framework for the research
accomplished on the reading process over the past 15 years. It
emphasizes how readers go about extracting information from the
printed page and how they comprehend the text.
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