The Psychology Of Reading

By: Eleanor J. Gibson, Harry Levin

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Paperback | 15 September 1978

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In this book, two psychologists apply principles of cognitivepsychology to understanding reading.

In this book, two psychologists apply principles of cognitive psychology to understanding reading. Unlike most other books on the subject, this one presents a consistent theoretical point of view and applies it to the acquisition of reading and what the skilled reader does. The first part of The Psychology of Reading covers perceptual learning, the development of cognitive strategies, the development of language, the nature of writing systems, and an extensive review of the research on word recognition. In the second part of the book, the authors look closely at abilities that children bring to school before learning to read. They describe the acquisition of initial reading skills and transition to skilled reading, the nature of the reading process in adult readers, and the ways people learn from reading. The book's third part takes up questions people frequently ask about reading--such as reading by deaf children, dyslexia, the influence of nonstandard dialects on learning to read, comparison of reading achievement across different nations and different languages, and the debatable virtues of speed reading. The authors conclude that reading cannot be understood simply as associative learning--that is, the learning of an arbitrary code connecting written symbols and their sounds. Reading involves higher-level mental processes such as the discovery of rules and order, and the extraction of structured, meaningful information.

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Preface	p. xi
Concepts Underlying the Study of Reading
Introduction	p. 3
A Theory of Perceptual Learning and Its Relevance for Understanding Reading	p. 13
The Development of Cognitive Strategies	p. 46
Linguistic Concepts Necessary to Study Reading	p. 87
Language Development	p. 109
Writing Systems	p. 156
On the Perception of Words: An Application of Some Basic Concepts	p. 189
The Study of Reading
The Development of Prereading Skills	p. 227
Beginning to Read	p. 264
The Transition to Skilled Reading	p. 334
Learning from Reading	p. 392
Models of the Reading Process in the Mature Reader	p. 438
Questions People Ask about Reading
References	p. 559
Subject Index	p. 613
Author Index	p. 621
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