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1 online resource (241 pages) |
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READING-FROM WORDS TO MULTIPLE TEXTS; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Overview; 1 Reading Is Recycling-It's Human Nature; 2 Learning to Read Words: Understanding the Relationship between Reading Ability, Lexical Quality, and Reading Context; 3 Reading Acquisition in a Transparent Orthography: The Case of Dutch; 4 Teachers in the Know: Links between Teachers' Phonological Knowledge and Students' Literacy Learning; 5 Why It Is Easier to Wreak Havoc than Unleash Havoc: The Role of Lexical Co-occurrence, Reading |
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6 What Kind of Language Statistics Must Be in Long-Term to Make Language Understanding Possible? A Computational Perspective7 Making the Link between Vocabulary Knowledge and Comprehension Skill; 8 From Verbal Efficiency Theory to Lexical Quality: The Role of Memory Processes in Reading Comprehension; 9 Sensitivity to Structural Centrality: Developmental and Individual Differences in Reading Comprehension Skills; 10 Identifying Component Discourse Processes from Their fMRI Time Course Signatures; 11 Documents as Entities: Extending the Situation Model Theory of Comprehension |
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12 Research and Development of Multiple Source Comprehension Assessment13 From Decoding to Documents: The Complex Components of Comprehending Reading; List of contributors; Author index; Subject index |
| Summary |
Increasing the mastery of reading and text literacy in the general population is one of the most important challenges faced by both developed and developing societies. Providing a new reference for researchers and practitioners involved in this domain, this book brings together empirical research on the multiple levels of language that are involved in reading. It emphasizes the concrete outcomes of scientific research, and illustrates the continuity among levels. The chapters deal with clearly articulated questions, provide up-to-date reviews of the literature, and include discussions of th |
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Print version record |
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Perfetti, Charles A
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Perfetti, Charles A. fast |
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Reading.
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Reading, Psychology of.
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Reading -- Research.
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Reading
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Reading
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Reading, Psychology of
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Reading -- Research
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Electronic book
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Goldman, Susan
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Rouet, Jean-Francois
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| ISBN |
9781136475702 |
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1136475702 |
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