Reading Comprehension in Educational Settings
Published on 19. October 2017
Book
Hardback
198 pages
978-90-272-1812-4 (ISBN)
Description
Text comprehension is a critical area of psychological and educational research, and has particular relevance to educational context. The general aim of this international volume Reading Comprehension in Educational Settings is to encourage excellence in research and to bring together teachers, students, researchers and other professionals from different disciplines (e.g. psychology, linguistics, neuroscience, education, information technology, and communication), as well as all those members of the general public who have an interest in the study of reading. The specific objectives of the different chapters in this volume are to analyze existing methods of studying the various aspects of reading comprehension, disseminate results already obtained by research groups working in the field and debate current and future trends in the study of reading.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Amsterdam
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Weight
495 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-272-1812-4 (9789027218124)
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Content
1. Dedication; 2. Preface (by Escudero, Inmaculada); 3. Chapter overviews; 4. Acknowledgments; 5. List of contributors; 6. Chapter 1. What we know about skilled, beginning, and older readers from monitoring their eye movements: Implications for teaching reading (by Leinenger, Mallorie); 7. Chapter 2. Meaningful learning from texts: The construction of knowledge representations (by Beker, Katinka); 8. Chapter 3. Causal inferences in reading comprehension: State of the art (by Leon, Jose A.); 9. Chapter 4. Reading comprehension in the early years: Making the case for oral language (by Van Boekel, Martin); 10. Chapter 5. Five building blocks for comprehension strategy instruction (by Allen, Laura K.); 11. Chapter 6. What is so difficult about expository text? (by Lorch, Robert F.); 12. Chapter 7. Development of a cognitive model of web-navigation (by Oostendorp, Herre van)