Perception of print : reading research in experimental psychology / edited by Ovid J.L. Tzeng and Harry Singer.

Originally published in 1981 by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed April 04, 2017).

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

1. Teaching the acquisition phase of reading development : an historical perspective / Harry Singer -- 2. Integration processes in word recognition / Neal F. Johnson -- 3. Understanding word perception : clues from studying the word-superiority effect / James C. Johnston -- 4. Words and context / Philip B. Gough, Jack A. Alford, Jr., and Pamela Holley-Wilcox -- 5. Processing words in context / Kathryn T. Spoehr and Richard E. Schuberth -- 6. Exploring the nature of a basic visual-processing component of reading ability / Mark D. Jackson and James L. McClelland -- 7. Recoding of printed words to internal speech : does recoding come before lexical access? / William P. Banks, Evelyn Oka, and Sherrie Shugarman -- 8. Some aspects of language perception by eye : the beginning reader / Carol A. Fowler -- 9. What good is orthographic redundancy? / Marilyn Jager Adams -- 10. Language structure and optimal orthography / William S.-Y. Wang -- 11. Linguistic determinism : a written language perspective / Ovid J.L. Tzeng and Daisy L. Hung -- 12. Speech understanding and reading : some difference and similarities / Raymond S. Nickerson -- 13. Instruction in reading acquisition / Harry Singer.

In the late 1970s, reading research had become a true interdisciplinary endeavour with flavours of anthropology, artificial intelligence, cognitive psychology, educational psychology, linguistics, neuroscience and instructional technology. Given appropriate integration, results from these diverse perspectives can enhance our understanding of reading behaviour tremendously, both in its acquisition and in its skilled functioning. Thus, the enthusiasm for such interdisciplinary interaction had been quite intense for some time. In the years before publication, the National Reading Conference had been doing everything possible to accelerate this interaction. Originally published in 1981, the chapters in this book are the fruits of that effort. The research focuses on specifying skills in identifying alphabetical elements and the rules that govern their combination, on constructing models that characterize the recognition of individual words and the interpretation of texts, and on discovering what factors are responsible for blocking the normal acquisition process in many children. Chapters 2 to 12 of this book reflect these changing foci. They are nevertheless sandwiched by two chapters that deal with the historical background and future outlook of reading instruction.

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