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 …

Cognitive neuroscience is making rapid strides in areas highly relevant to education.
However, there is a gulf between current science and direct classroom applications. Most …

Cognitive Development and Cognitive Neuroscience: The Learning Brain is a thoroughly
revised edition of the bestselling Cognitive Development. The new edition of this full-colour …

This article presents a series of manuscripts that discusses the development of second
language reading. The article discusses language-specific constraints on reading …

The idea of Matthew effects in reading—the widening achievement gap between good and
poor readers—has attracted considerable attention in education research in the past 25 …

This accessible text brings together research on word reading and comprehension
development, which are often treated separately, and provides a comprehensive and …

This book is intended to help language teachers to work effectively and successfully with
students who have Specific Learning Differences (SpLDs). It enables teachers to gain a …

Musical training has been shown to positively influence linguistic abilities. To follow the
developmental dynamics of this transfer effect at the preattentive level, we conducted a …

Some aspects of Chinese literacy development do not conform to patterns of literacy
development in alphabetic orthographies. Four are highlighted here. First, semantic radicals …

The most influential theory of learning to read is based on the idea that children rely on
phonological decoding skills to learn novel words. According to the self-teaching hypothesis …