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411. The Psychology of Reading

     By Keith Rayner, Alexander Pollatsek

     The last 20 years have witnessed a revolution in reading research. Cognitive psychologists, using high-speed computers to aid in the collection and analysis of data, have developed tools that have begun to answer questions that were previously thought unanswerable. These tools allow for a "...

     Published October 31st 1994 by Routledge
412. Beliefs About Text and Instruction With Text

     Edited by Ruth Garner, Patricia A. Alexander

     Every day in classrooms, teachers and students think about and with text. Their beliefs about what text is, who created it, and how to evaluate it are an influence, often a profoundly important one, on how they use text. This book brings together research on epistemology, belief systems, teacher...

     Published July 31st 1994 by Routledge
413. Perspectives on Sentence Processing

     Edited by Charles Clifton, Jr., Lyn Frazier, Keith Rayner, Charles Clifton

     One of the liveliest forums for sharing psychological, linguistic, philosophical, and computer science perspectives on psycholinguistics has been the annual meeting of the CUNY Sentence Processing Conference. Documenting the state of the art in several important approaches to sentence processing,...

     Published July 31st 1994 by Psychology Press
414. Learning to Write

     2nd Edition

     By Gunther Kress

     First published in 1982, this influential and classic text poses two questions: what is it that a child learns when he or she learns to write? What can we learn about children, society and ourselves, by looking at this process? The book is based on a close analysis of a series of written texts by...

     Published December 1st 1993 by Routledge
415. Visual Processes in Reading and Reading Disabilities

     Edited by Dale M. Willows, Richard Kruk, Richard Kruk, Evelyne Corcos

     Over the last 25 years, reading processes have been the focus of an enormous amount of research in experimental psychology as well as in other disciplines. The theories and models emerging from this research have greatly advanced understanding of both normal acquisition and of reading disabilities....

     Published September 30th 1993 by Routledge
416. Reading, Language, and Literacy

     Instruction for the Twenty-first Century

     Edited by Fran Lehr, Jean Osborn

     The impetus for this book emerged from a conference that brought together publishers, and reading researchers and educators for the purpose of examining the best available research evidence about what we know -- and what we have yet to learn -- about the teaching of reading and about how children...

     Published August 31st 1993 by Routledge
417. Reading Research Into the Year 2000

     Edited by Anne P. Sweet, Judith I. Anderson

     Through the years, research on reading has made enormous contributions to helping us understand how students learn to read and how teachers can best instruct them. Research continues to add to our fundamental knowledge of reading in significant ways, thus adding more pieces to the puzzle -- for...

     Published August 31st 1993 by Routledge
418. Language, Classrooms and Computers

     Edited by Peter Scrimshaw

     As computers become more widely used in schools, it is clear that they have the potential not just to support the achievement of conventional goals, but also to redefine what we mean by reading, writing and discussion. The contributors to Language, Classroom and Computers - all with experience of...

     Published July 7th 1993 by Routledge
419. Literacy and Language Analysis

     Edited by Robert J. Scholes

     This volume investigates the interconnections between language and literacy in terms of the structures of language as well as the linguistic contexts of literacy. The work for this book was generated in order to focus on studies of the acquisition and impact of literacy on traditional assertions of...

     Published April 30th 1993 by Routledge
420. Learning From Textbooks

     Theory and Practice

     Edited by Bruce K. Britton, Arthur Woodward, Marilyn Binkley

     It is surprising that there is so little research on textbooks, given their centrality to teaching and learning in elementary and secondary schools. Textbooks have become a focus of political and cultural controversy, advocating a multicultural curriculum that has sparked some vigorous protests....

     Published March 31st 1993 by Routledge