The self-teaching hypothesis proposes that phonological recoding functions as a self-
teaching mechanism enabling the learner to independently acquire an autonomous …

In this critique of current reading research and practice, the author contends that the extreme
ambiguity of English spelling-sound correspondence has confined reading science to an …

The ultimate aim of reading is not the process but to understand what we read and
comprehension can take place at many different levels. There has been an increasing …

Theories of reading comprehension have widely predicted a role for syntactic skills, or the
ability to understand and manipulate the structure of a sentence. Yet, these theories are …

Das Buch bietet einen Überblick über die Beschreibung, Erklärung, Diagnostik, Therapie
und Prävention von Störungen der Sprachentwicklung. Die überarbeitete Auflage …

Most current theories of reading and dyslexia derive from a relatively narrow empirical base:
research on English and a handful of other European alphabets. Furthermore, the two …

To a great extent, our interest in vocabulary growth is motivated by the correlation between
vocabulary knowledge and reading comprehension: people with bigger vocabularies also …

This is the first book to examine in-depth the crucial role of the speed of information
processing in the brain in determining reading fluency in both normal and dyslexic readers …

The science of reading and developmental dyslexia has experienced spectacular advances
during the last few years. Five aspects of this research are discussed in the article.(1) The …

Syntactic awareness has been linked to word reading and reading comprehension. The
predictive power of two syntactic awareness tasks (grammatical correction, word-order …