The Oxford handbook of reading
Writing is one of humankind's greatest inventions, and modern societies could not function if their citizens could not read and write. How do skilled readers so quickly pick up meaning from squiggles on a page, and how do children learn to do so? These questions have been studied in fields rang...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York
Oxford University Press
2015, 2015
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| Series: | Oxford library of psychology / Oxford library of psychology
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| Collection: | Oxford Handbook Online - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| Summary: | Writing is one of humankind's greatest inventions, and modern societies could not function if their citizens could not read and write. How do skilled readers so quickly pick up meaning from squiggles on a page, and how do children learn to do so? These questions have been studied in fields ranging from vision science to cognitive psychology to education. The chapters in this handbook synthesize the research on these topics, focusing on how studies using a cognitive approach can shed light on how the reading process works in skilled readers and how children learn to read |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource illustrations (black and white) |
| ISBN: | 9780190236540 |