Perception of Print

Reading Research in Experimental Psychology

Ovid J.L. Tzeng, Harry Singer

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2017
• Print ISBN: 9781138210776
• eBook ISBN: 9781315454351
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Psychology
• Subtopic: Cognitive Psychology & Cognition
• Index: Psychology

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 acquisition and in its skilled functioning. Thus, the enthusiasm for such interdisciplinary interaction had been quite intense for some time. In the years before publication, the National Reading Conference had been doing everything possible to accelerate this interaction. Originally published in 1981, the chapters in this book are the fruits of that effort.

The research focuses on specifying skills in identifying alphabetical elements and the rules that govern their combination, on constructing models that characterize the recognition of individual words and the interpretation of texts, and on discovering what factors are responsible for blocking the normal acquisition process in many children. Chapters 2 to 12 of this book reflect these changing foci. They are nevertheless sandwiched by two chapters that deal with the historical background and future outlook of reading instruction.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Original Title Page
• Original Copyright page
• Table of Contents
• Preface
• Overview: Relevancy of Experimental Psychology to Reading Instruction
• 1. Teaching the Acquisition Phase of Reading Development: An Historical Perspective
• 2. Integration Processes in Word Recognition
• 3. Understanding Word Perception: Clues from Studying the Word-Superiority Effect
• 4. Words and Contexts
• 5. Processing Words in Context
• 6. Exploring the Nature of a Basic Visual-Processing Component of Reading Ability
• 7. Recoding of Printed Words to Internal Speech: Does Recoding Come Before Lexical Access?
• 8. Some Aspects of Language Perception by Eye: The Beginning Reader
• 9. What Good is Orthographic Redundancy?
• 10. Language Structure and Optimal Orthography
• 11. Linguistic Determinism: A Written Language Perspective
• 12. Speech Understanding and Reading: Some Differences and Similarities
• 13. Instruction in Reading Acquisition
• Author Index
• Subject Index