1st Edition

Perception of Print Reading Research in Experimental Psychology

Edited By Ovid J.L. Tzeng, Harry Singer Copyright 1981
336 Pages
by Routledge

336 Pages
by Routledge

336 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more

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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Ovid J.L. Tzeng, Harry Singer