Table of Contents

Preface. Overview: Relevancy of Experimental Psychology to Reading Instruction Ovid J.L. Tzeng 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 Contexts 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 Differences and Similarities Raymond S. Nickerson 13. Instruction in Reading Acquisition Harry Singer. Author Index. Subject Index.

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Ovid J.L. Tzeng, Harry Singer