"During the past decades, literacy has gradually become a major concern all over the world. Though there is a great diversity in both the distribution and degree of literacy in different countries, there has been an increasing awareness of the number of illiterates and the consequences of being illiterate. However, literacy is no longer seen as a universal trait. When one focuses on culturally-sensitive accoun ..."
"During the past decades, literacy has gradually become a major concern all over the world. Though there is a great diversity in both the distribution and degree of literacy in different countries, there has been an increasing awareness of the number of illiterates and the consequences of being illiterate. However, literacy is no longer seen as a universal trait. When one focuses on culturally-sensitive accounts of reading and writing pr ..."
"H. Chitiri, H. Chmilar, P Choy, M. H Chu»Chang, M Churchill, Clarke, Clausen,
Clay, Clifton, S Coltheart, M C0 Cope, B Cossu, G Coulmas, F. Crawford, J Cruz,
B. Cummins, Danesi, M Daniels, Dave, R Davis, V. I De Avila, E. DeKanter,
Denckla, ... P. IE H Gillmore, PIT x i Glatthorn, A. G00dy,.I 27 I 7 fl Grandguillaume
. Gregory, E. Gudschinsk S. C. Guskin, LEE Haastrupp, K. " Hakuta, K. Hamilton,
M. IE Hamilton, M. E. Hammar,T. Hanci ..."
"As such, literacy can be seen as a lifelong context-bound set of practices in which an individual's needs vary with time and place. This volume explores the use of literacy outside the mainstream in different contexts throughout the world."
"... Newman Patricia A. Alexander University of Maryland Roger H. Bruning
Universityof Nebraska–Lincoln Ronald P. Carver University of Missouri–Kansas
City Janice University of Utah University of Maryland Medical ResearchCouncil
Vanderbilt University of Maryland Saskatchewan Auckland P. Alexandra Gottardo
Wilfrid Laurier University Philip Gough University of Texas Lynn Uta Mariam
StateUniversity Michael Pressley University of Notre ..."
"A Special Issue of Scientific Studies of Reading Esther Geva, Ludo Verhoeven.
EDITOR Joanna P. Williams ........................ Teachers College, Columbia
University EDITORIAL BOARD Marilyn Jager Adams ................................. Bolt,
Baranek, & Newman Patricia ... University of Southern California Michael
McKenna ................................. Georgia Southern University William E. Nagy ............
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"Reading Engagement in Individuals and Groups Ludo Th Verhoeven, Catherine E. Snow. This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2008. To purchase your own copy of this or any of Taylor & Francis or Routledge's collection of ..."
"Around the world, children embark on learning to read in their home language or writing system. But does their specific language, and how it is written, make a difference to how they learn? How is learning to read English similar to or different from learning in other languages? Is reading alphabetic writing a different challenge from reading syllabic or logographic writing? Learning to Read across Languages and Writing Systems examines ..."
"This volume presents the first truly systematic, multi-disciplinary, and cross-linguistic study of the language and writing system factors affecting the emergence of dyslexia. Bringing together a team of scholars from a wide variety of disciplines, it takes a dual focus on the language-specific properties of dyslexia and on its core components across languages and orthographies, to challenge theories on the nature, identification and pr ..."
"Around the world, children embark on learning to read in their home language or writing system. But does their specific language, and how it is written, make a difference to how they learn? How is learning to read English similar to or different from learning in other languages? Is reading alphabetic writing a different challenge from reading syllabic or logographic writing? Learning to Read across Languages and Writing Systems examines ..."
"Relating Events in Narrative, Volume 2: Typological and Contextual Perspectives edited by Sven Ströouml;mqvist and Ludo Verhoeven, is the much anticipated follow-up volume to Ruth Berman and Dan Slobin's successful "frog-story studies" book, Relating Events in Narrative: A Crosslinguistic Developmental Study (1994). Working closely with Ruth Berman and Dan Slobin, the new editors ..."
"Interactive Literacy Education combines the latest research and theory related to technology-based instructional design for childrenâs literacy development. It shows how technology can be used to build literacy learning environments that are compatible with studentsâ cognitive and social processes. Topics addressed throughout this enlightening work include:*technology environments and applications that preservice teachers can use w ..."
"Interactive Literacy Education combines the latest research and theory related to technology-based instructional design for children’s literacy development. It shows how technology can be used to build literacy learning environments that are compatible with students’ cognitive and social processes. Topics addressed throughout this enlightening work include:*technology environments and applications that preservice teachers can use with ..."
"This special issue compiles a set of five research-based articles that examine the role of morphological representations in learning to read: modeling morphological processing, uncovering morphological awareness, finding units of analysis, and contrasting implicit vs. explicit learning. The focus is on the role of morphology in learning to read in three alphabetic languages: English, Dutch, and French. As such, the findings from the lar ..."
"Chapters written by leading authorities offer current perspectives on the origins and development of language disorders. They address the question: How can the child's linguistic environment be restructured so that children at risk can develop important adaptive skills in the domains of self-care, social interaction, and problem solving? This theory-based, but practical book emphasizes the importance of accurate definitions of subtypes ..."
"The purpose of this volume is to present recent research in the field of the acquisition of functional literacy and its precursors. The volume aims to capture the state of the art in this rapidly expanding field. An attempt is made to clarify the vague and often inconsistent definitions of functional literacy from the perspective of development. Cognitive, linguistic, educational, and social factors of literacy development are all taken ..."
"In this volume, the results of a number of empirical studies of the development of narrative construction within a multilingual context are presented and discussed. It is explored what operating principles underlie the process of narrative production in L1 and L2. Developmental relations between form and function will be studied across a broad range of functional categories, such as temporality, perspective, connectivity, and narrative ..."