Reading - From Words to Multiple Texts

M. Anne Britt is a Professor in the Psychology Department at Northern Illinois University.Susan R. Goldman is Distinguished Professor of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Psychology, and Education and Co-Director of the Learning Sciences Research Institute at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Jean-François Rouet is Senior Research Scientist with the French Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (National Center for Scientific Research).

• Preface 1. Reading is recycling—it’s human nature 2. Learning to read words: Understanding the relationship between reading ability, lexical quality, and reading context 3. Reading acquisition in a transparent orthography: The case of Dutch 4. Teachers in the Know: Links between Teachers' Phonological Knowledge and Students' Literacy Learning 5. Why it is easier to wreak havoc than unleash havoc: The role of lexical co-occurrence, predictability and reading proficiency in sentence reading 6. What kind of language statistics must be in long-term memory to make language understanding possible: A computational perspective 7. Making the link between vocabulary knowledge and comprehension skill 8. From Verbal Efficiency Theory to Lexical Quality: The Role of Memory Processes in Reading Comprehension 9. Sensitivity to Structural Centrality: Developmental and individual differences in reading comprehension skills 10. Identifying component discourse processes from their fMRI time course signatures 11. Documents as entities: Extending the situation model theory of comprehension 12. Research and Development of Multiple Source Comprehension Assessment 13. From Decoding to Documents: The Complex Components of Comprehending Reading Index

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