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Informationen zum Autor Gianni Vattimo is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Turin. Jacques Derrida is Director of Studies at the Aecole Pratique des Hautes Aetudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris! and holds a visiting appointment at the University of California. Klappentext In recent years, there has been increasing emphasis on the idea of reading as a 'socio-cultural' phenomenon, which is derived from the idea that reading is not an isolated skill, but is necessarily related to the purposes reading will be put to in particular social and cultural contexts. Reading Development and the Teaching of Readin g acknowledges the undoubted contribution of language, motivation and cultural factors to the acquisition of lit4eracy whilst engaging with the contribution of scientific experimental research to the understanding of reading and its development. The prominent contributors to the book demonstrate how psychological research contributes to our understanding of both the nature of literacy and reading development. Practitioners, researchers and students will find in this volume an invaluable source of information on research into literacy and its acquisition. The origins of this book were in a special issue of the Journal of Research in Reading (a United Kingdom Reading Association Journal) Zusammenfassung aeo Contains contributions from many world authorities in the field of reading development. aeo Provides a current account of how children acquire reading skills. aeo Discusses the applications of research findings for the teaching of reading. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Figures. List of Tables. Preface. Acknowledgements. List of Contributors. 1 The New Literacy: Caveat Emptor (Philip B. Gough). 2 How Research Might Inform the Debate about Early Reading Acquisition (Keith E. Stanovich and Paula J. Stanovich). 3 Cognitive Research and the Misconception of Reading Education (Charles A. Perfetti). 4 Constructing Meaning: The Role of Decoding (Philip B. Gough and Sabastian Wren). 5 Phases of Development in Learning to Read Words (Linnea C. Ehri). 6 Learning to Read Words Turns Listeners into Readers: How Children Accomplish this Transition (Morag Stuart! Jackie Masterson and Maureen Dixon). 7 Dyslexia: Core Difficulties! Variability and Causes (Carsten Elbro). 8 Meaningless! Productivity! and Reading: Some Observations about the Relation between the Alphabet and Speech (Brian Byrne and Alvin M. Liberman). 9 Phonological Development and Reading by Analogy: Epilinguistic and Metalinguistic Issues (Usha Goswami). 10 The Messenger may be Wrong! but the Message may be Right (Connie Juel). 11 Afterword: The Science and Politics of Beginning Reading Practices (Marilyn Jager Adams). Subject Index. Author Index. ...
