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Exploring Silent Reading Fluency: Its Nature and Development
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Taylor, Stanford E. – Charles C. Thomas, Publisher, Ltd, 2011
It is the goal of this book to provide unique and helpful information to reading and curriculum specialists who are looking for ways to improve the silent reading proficiency of their students. While the background information is, at times, technical, the recommendations as to the skill areas that require improvement as well as the computer…
Descriptors: Silent Reading, Reading Fluency, Basal Reading, Reading Programs
Reading in Asian Languages: Making Sense of Written Texts in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean
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Goodman, Kenneth S., Ed.; Wang, Shaomei, Ed.; Iventosch, Mieko, Ed.; Goodman, Yetta M., Ed. – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2011
"Reading in Asian Languages" is rich with information about how literacy works in the non-alphabetic writing systems (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) used by hundreds of millions of people and refutes the common Western belief that such systems are hard to learn or to use. The contributors share a comprehensive view of reading as construction…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Childrens Literature, Korean Culture, Eye Movements
Understanding Language: An Information-Processing Analysis of Speech Perception, Reading, and Psycholinguistics.
Massaro, Dominic W., Ed. – 1975
In an information-processing approach to language processing, language processing is viewed as a sequence of psychological stages that occur between the initial presentation of the language stimulus and the meaning in the mind of the language processor. This book defines each of the processes and structures involved, explains how each of them…
Descriptors: Eye Movements, Learning Processes, Linguistic Theory, Psycholinguistics
Models of Efficient Reading.
Cohen, Karen M.; And Others – 1978
The three papers in this book treat the experimental literature on eye movements in reading and information processing to determine what factors might be manipulated to improve reading efficiency. The first paper discusses control models of eye activity in reading, research data concerning eye activity with reading material, and future directions…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Efficiency, Elementary Secondary Education, Eye Movements
The Psychology of Reading.
Rayner, Keith; Pollatsek, Alexander – 1989
Intended for advanced undergraduates and beginning graduate students, this book summarizes and puts into a coherent framework the research on reading processes conducted by cognitive psychologists since the early 1970s. The book focuses on the process of reading: how information is extracted from the printed page and comprehended. Part 1 provides…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Cognitive Psychology, Eye Movements, Higher Education
Reading and Computers: Issues for Theory and Practice. Computers and Education Series.
Reinking, David, Ed. – 1987
Embodying two themes--that the computer can become an even more exciting instructional tool than it is today, and that the research necessary for developing the potential of this tool is already underway, this book explores the theoretical, research, and instructional issues concerning computers and reading. The titles of the essays and their…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Processes, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Simulation