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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wood, Clare Patricia.

Connelly, Vincent.

Series:

New perspectives on learning and instruction

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Reading--Cross-cultural studies.

Reading.

Language and languages--Orthography and spelling.

Language and languages.

Genre:

Cross-cultural studies.

Physical Description:

xi, 292 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2009.

Summary:

With contributions from leading international researchers, Contemporary perspectives on Reading and Spelling offers a critique of current thinking on the research literature into reading, reading comprehension and spelling. Each chapter in this volume provides an account of empirical research that challenges aspects of accepted models and widely accepted theories about reading and spelling.

This book develops the argument for a need to incorporate more complexity into popular accounts of written language development and disability, challenging th idea that the development of a universal theory of written language development is attainable. The arguments within the book are explored in three parts:

overarching debates in reading and spelling

reading and spelling across languages

written language difficulties and approaches to teaching.

Opening up the existing debates, and incorporating psychological theory and the politics surrounding the teaching and learning of reading and spelling, this edited collection offers some challenging points for reflection about how the discipline of psychology as a whole approaches the study of written language skills.

Highlighting many new perspectives, this book forms essential reading for all researchers and practitioners with a focus on the development of reading and spelling skills.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780415497176

0415497175

9780415497169

0415497167

9780203877838

0203877837

OCLC:

269455931