1st Edition
Reading - From Words to Multiple Texts
Preface 1. Reading is recycling—it’s human nature Iris Berent 2. Learning to read words: Understanding the relationship between reading ability, lexical quality, and reading context Nicole Landi 3. Reading acquisition in a transparent orthography: The case of Dutch Ludo Verhoeven 4. Teachers in the Know: Links between Teachers' Phonological Knowledge and Students' Literacy Learning Deborah McCutchen 5. Why it is easier to wreak havoc than unleash havoc: The role of lexical co-occurrence, predictability and reading proficiency in sentence reading Sally Andrews and Gemma Reynolds 6. What kind of language statistics must be in long-term memory to make language understanding possible: A computational perspective Walter Kintsch 7. Making the link between vocabulary knowledge and comprehension skill Jane Oakhill, Kate Cain, Diana McCarthy and Zoe Nightingale 8. From Verbal Efficiency Theory to Lexical Quality: The Role of Memory Processes in Reading Comprehension Julie A. Van Dyke and Donald P. Shankweiler 9. Sensitivity to Structural Centrality: Developmental and individual differences in reading comprehension skills Paul van den Broek, Anne Helder and Linda Van Leijenhorst 10. Identifying component discourse processes from their fMRI time course signatures Robert A. Mason and Marcel Adam Just 11. Documents as entities: Extending the situation model theory of comprehension M. Anne Britt, Jean-François Rouet, and Jason L.G. Braasch 12. Research and Development of Multiple Source Comprehension Assessment Susan R. Goldman, Kimberly Lawless, and Flori Manning 13. From Decoding to Documents: The Complex Components of Comprehending Reading James. F. Voss and Jennifer Wiley Index
Biography
M. Anne Britt is a Professor in the Psychology Department at Northern Illinois University.
Susan R. Goldman is Distinguished Professor of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Psychology, and Education and Co-Director of the Learning Sciences Research Institute at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Jean-François Rouet is Senior Research Scientist with the French Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (National Center for Scientific Research).
