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The Role of Neural and Genetic Processes in Learning to Read and Specific Reading Disabilities: Implications for Instruction
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Church, Jessica A.; Grigorenko, Elena L.; Fletcher, Jack M. – Reading Research Quarterly, 2023
To learn to read, the brain must repurpose neural systems for oral language and visual processing to mediate written language. We begin with a description of computational models for how alphabetic written language is processed. Next, we explain the roles of a dorsal sublexical system in the brain that relates print and speech, a ventral lexical…
Descriptors: Genetics, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Reading Processes, Oral Language
Paradoxes in French-Language Instruction: Recent Social and Historical Research on Literacy in France
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Rockwell, Elsie; Galvao, Ana Maria – Reading Research Quarterly, 2012
This essay on three recent books by outstanding scholars--"La raison scolaire" by Bernard Lahire, "Histoire de l'enseignement du francais du XVII[superscript e] au XX[superscript e] siecle" by Andre Chervel, and "L'ecole et la lecture obligatoire" by Anne-Marie Chartier--offers the opportunity to acquaint readers with…
Descriptors: Written Language, Foreign Countries, French, Language Research
The Effect of Pictures and Contextual Conditions on Learning Responses to Printed Words
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Singer, Harry; And Others – Reading Research Quarterly, 1973
Research supports Samuels' focal attention hypothesis for acquiring reading responses to novel words presented in isolation. (RB)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Elementary Education, Reading Instruction, Reading Research