The science of reading has made genuine progress in understanding reading and the
teaching of reading, but is the science of reading just the science of reading English …

The development of reading depends on phonological awareness across all languages so
far studied. Languages vary in the consistency with which phonology is represented in …

Reading in a Second Language: Moving from Theory to Practice Bill Grabe Table of
Contents Preface Section I: Foundations of Reading Comprehension 1. The Nature of …

In this paper, we survey current evidence on cognitive precursors of reading in different
orthographies by reviewing studies with a cross-linguistic research design. Graphic symbol …

Increasingly in recent years, educators have related worries about students' literacy
accomplishments to their lack of" academic language skills"(August & Shanahan, 2006; …

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 …

According to the self-teaching hypothesis (Share, 1995), word-specific orthographic
representations are acquired primarily as a result of the self-teaching opportunities provided …

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 …

Experiment 1 examined the time course of orthographic learning among Grade 3 children. A
single encounter with a novel orthographic string was sufficient to produce reliable recall of …

How do people learn in subject areas, such as reading, writing, mathematics, science, and
history, and how can we help people learn, using instructional methods such as feedback …