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The Science of Reading: A Handbook
Edited by:
Margaret J. Snowling and Charles Hulme
eISBN: 9781405114882
Print publication date: 2005
The Science of Reading: A Handbook
The Science of Reading: A Handbook brings together state-of-the-art reviews of reading research from leading names in the field, to create a multidisciplinary overview of contemporary knowledge about reading and related skills.
The Handbook is divided into seven sections:
- • Word Recognition Processes in Reading outlines models of word recognition that have shaped the direction of reading research during the past two decades.
- • Learning to Read and Spell reviews theories of literacy development and considers cognitive, linguistic, and environmental factors that influence the development of reading and spelling.
- • Reading Comprehension reviews reading comprehension processes and impairments in adults and children.
- • Reading in Different Languages reviews crosslinguistic studies of reading processes, and considers that development of reading in alphabetic and logographic languages as a backdrop to studies of dyslexia in different languages.
- • Disorders of Reading and Spelling reviews current research on acquired and developmental dyslexia and the effects of hearing and language impairments on learning to read.
- • Biological Bases of Reading reviews brain imaging and genetic approaches to reading and its disorders.
- • Finally, Teaching Reading discusses the implications of this large body of research for the teaching of reading and for reading intervention.
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Snowling, Margaret J. and Charles Hulme (eds). The Science of Reading: A Handbook. Blackwell Publishing, 2005. Blackwell Reference Online. 23 May 2013 <http://www.blackwellreference.com/public/book.html?id=g9781405114882_9781405114882>