Reading Development and the Teaching of Reading A Psychological Perspective

by Oakhill, Jane; Beard, Roger

• ISBN13: 9780631206828
• ISBN10: 0631206825
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-10-01
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

This volume demonstrates how psychological research helps us to better understand the reading process and its development.

Author Biography

Gianni Vattimo is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Turin.

Jacques Derrida is Director of Studies at the École Pratique des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris, and holds a visiting appointment at the University of California.

Table of Contents

List of Figures	vii
List of Tables	viii
Preface	ix
Acknowledgements	xvii
List of Contributors	xviii
The New Literacy: Caveat Emptor	1	(11)
Philip B. Gough
How Research Might Inform the Debate about Early Reading Acquisition	12	(30)
Keith E. Stanovich
Paula J. Stanovich
Cognitive Research and the Misconceptions of Reading Education	42	(17)
Charles A. Perfetti
Constructing Meaning: The Role of Decoding	59	(20)
Philip B. Gough
Sebastian Wren
Phases of Development in Learning to Read Words	79	(30)
Linnea C. Ehri
Learning to Read Words Turns Listeners into Readers: How Children Accomplish this Transition	109	(22)
Morag Stuart
Jackie Masterson
Maureen Dixon
Dyslexia: Core Difficulties, Variability and Causes	131	(26)
Carsten Elbro
Meaninglessness, Productivity and Reading: Some Observations about the Relation between the Alphabet and Speech	157	(17)
Brian Byrne
Alvin M. Liberman
Phonological Development and Reading by Analogy: Epilinguistic and Metalinguistic Issues	174	(27)
Usha Goswami
The Messenger may be Wrong, but the Message may be Right	201	(12)
Connie Juel
Afterword: The Science and Politics of Beginning Reading Practices	213	(15)
Marilyn Jager Adams
Subject Index	228	(3)
Author Index	231