Language at the speed of sight
Subtitle: how we read, why so many can't, and what can be done about it
By: Mark Seidenberg
Publisher: Basic Civitas Books
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 374
ISBN-13: 9780465019328
Subjects: Language experience approach in education; Cognition disorders; Reading (Higher education); Psycholinguistics
Description: A psychology professor specializing in the cognitive and neurological bases of language and reading discusses why children and adults have been incorrectly taught how to read and offers suggestions on how to vastly improve this vital life skill.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-361) and index.
Table of contents: title: Reading, writing, and speech. The problem and the paradox ; Visible language ; Writing: it's all Mesopotamian cuneiform to me; title: How we read. The eyes have it ; F u cn rd ths, u cn gt a gd jb n rdng rsch ; Becoming a reader ; Reading: the eternal triangle ; Dyslexia and its discontents ; Brain bases of reading; title: The educational challenges. How well does America read? ; The two cultures of science and education ; Reading the future.