Contemporary perspectives on reading and spelling / edited by Clare Wood and Vincent Connelly.

Other author Wood, Clare Patricia.
Other author Connelly, Vincent.
Format Book
Publication InfoLondon ; New York : Routledge, 2009.
Descriptionxi, 292 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Subjects
Reading--Cross-cultural studies.
Language and languages--Orthography and spelling.

SeriesNew perspectives on learning and instruction
New perspectives on learning and instruction. ^A1011037
Contents Phonological awareness : beyond phonemes / Clare Wood, Lesly Wade-Woolley & Andrew J. Holliman -- Auditory processing and developmental dyslexia : throwing the baby out with the bathwater? / Jennifer Thomson -- Acquiring complex reading skills : an exploration of disyllabic word reading / Lynne G. Duncan -- Children's reading comprehension difficulties : a consideration of the precursors and consequences / Kate Cain -- The acquisition of spelling patterns : early, late or never? / Nenagh Kemp -- Viewing spelling in a cognitive context : underlying representations and processes / Sarah Critten & Karen J. Pine -- What spelling errors have to tell about vocabulary learning / Ruth H. Bahr, Elaine R. Silliman & Virginia Berninger -- Reading and spelling development in transparent alphabetic orthographies : points of convergence, divergence and arising issues / Selma Babayigit -- How do children and adults conceptualise phoneme-letter relationships? / Annukka Lehtonen -- Do bilingual beginning readers activate the grapheme-phoneme correspondences of their two languages when reading in one language? / Vincent Goetry, Régine Kolinsky & Philippe Mousty -- Using spelling knowledge in a word game / Morag MacLean -- Metalinguistic and subcharacter skills in Chinese literacy acquisition / Xiuli Tong, Phil D. Liu & Catherine McBride-Chang -- Enhancing word reading, spelling and reading comprehension skills with synthetic phonics teaching : studies in Scotland and England / Rhona S. Johnson, Joyce E. Watson & Sarah Logan -- Does the type of reading instruction have an influence on how readers process print? / Vince Connelly ... [et al.] -- The cerebellar deficit theory of developmental dyslexia : evidence and implications for intervention / Shahrzad Irannejad & Robert Savage -- Teaching children with severe learning difficulties : routes to word recognition using logographic symbols / Kieron Sheehy and Andrew J. Holliman.
Summary With contributions from leading international researchers, this book offers a critique of current thinking on the research literature into reading, reading comprehension and writing.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2008048237
ISBN9780415497176 (pbk.)
ISBN0415497175 (pbk.)
ISBN9780415497169 (hardback)
ISBN0415497167 (hardback)
ISBN9780203877838 (ebook)
ISBN0203877837 (ebook)

Availability

Library Location Call Number Status Item Actions
Joyner General Stacks LB1050 .C623 2009 ✔ Available Place Hold