Reading and Understanding
Reading and Understanding
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Summary
Presenting a review of thinking about the psychology of reading, this book introduces the nature of problems facing the reader who is to extract meaningful information from printed symbols. It also deals with the development of reading skills in readers of differing ability, including development dyslexics, poor readers, and speed readers.
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Reading and Understanding by Geoffrey Underwood
Reading and Understanding presents a review of current thinking about the psychology of reading, introducing the nature of problems facing the reader who is to extract meaningful information from printed symbols. It is suitable for use as an advanced text for psychology, education and linguistics students. The volume includes a description of text and of the cognitive processes and changes necessary for transforming visible characters into meanings, and introduces the notion of the "computational problem" facing the skilled reader - what kinds of information are available, and what are the processes necessary for recovering that information? It also deals with the development of reading skills in readers of differing ability, including development dyslexics, poor readers, skilled readers and speed readers.
Geoffrey Underwood is Professor of Cognitive Psychology at the University of Nottingham.
Viv Batt is a Teaching Fellow in the Department of Psychology at the University of Nottingham.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780631179511 |
| ISBN 10 | 0631179518 |
| Title | Reading and Understanding |
| Author | Geoffrey Underwood |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | John Wiley and Sons Ltd |
| Year published | 1996-04-12 |
| Number of pages | 260 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |