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Date: Tue, 12 May 2020 21:10:16
From: Rachel Tonkin [rtonkin at cambridge.org]
Subject: Learning to Read across Languages and Writing Systems: Verhoeven, Perfetti (eds.)

 


Title: Learning to Read across Languages and Writing Systems 
Publication Year: 2020 
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Book URL: https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/languages-linguistics/psycholinguistics-and-neurolinguistics/learning-read-across-languages-and-writing-systems?format=PB 


Editor: Ludo Verhoeven
Editor: Charles Perfetti

Paperback: ISBN:  9781107479531 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 34.99
Paperback: ISBN:  9781107479531 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 26.99
Paperback: ISBN:  9781107479531 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 31.50


Abstract:

Around the world, children embark on learning to read in their home language
or writing system. But does their specific language, and how it is written,
make a difference to how they learn? How is learning to read English similar
to or different from learning in other languages? Is reading alphabetic
writing a different challenge from reading syllabic or logographic writing?
Learning to Read across Languages and Writing Systems examines these questions
across seventeen languages representing the world's different major writing
systems. Each chapter highlights the key features of a specific language,
exploring research on learning to read, spell, and comprehend it, and on
implications for education. The editors' introduction describes the global
spread of reading and provides a theoretical framework, including operating
principles for learning to read. The editors' final chapter draws conclusions
about cross-linguistic universal trends, and the challenges posed by specific
languages and writing systems.

1. Introduction: universals in learning to read across languages and writing
systems Ludo Verhoeven and Charles Perfetti; 2. Learning to read Chinese Becky
Chen-Baumgarten and Adrian Pasquarella; 3. Learning to read Japanese Keiko
Koda; 4. Learning to read Korean Min Wang, Jeung-Ryeul Cho and Chuchu Li; 5.
Learning to read Kannada Sonali Nag; 6. Learning to read Arabic Elinor
Saiegh-Haddad; 7. Learning to read Hebrew David Share; 8. Learning to read
Greek Athanassios Protopapas; 9. Learning to read Italian Christina Burani,
Anna Thornton and Pierluigi Zoccolitti; 10. Learning to read French Helene
Deacon, Alain Desrochers and Kyle Levesque; 11. Learning to read Spanish
Sylvia Defior and Fransisca Serrano; 12. Learning to read German Karin
Landerl; 13. Learning to read Dutch Ludo Verhoeven; 14. Learning to read
English Charles Perfetti; 15. Learning to read Czech and Slovakian Marketa
Caravolas; 16. Learning to read Russian Elena Grigorenko, Sergey Kornilov and
Natalia Rakhlin; 17. Learning to read Finnish Mikko Aro; 18. Learning to read
Turkish Aydin Durgunoglu; 19. Epilogue: universals and particulars in learning
to read across seventeen orthographies Charles Perfetti and Ludo Verhoeven.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Neurolinguistics
                     Psycholinguistics
                     Writing Systems


Written In: English  (eng)

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