Reading, Literacy, Readers Competence: Development Strategy

Reading, Literacy, and Education

In his article "Reading, Literacy, and Education" Mikko Lehtonen outlines a contextual approach to literacy. He asks how the changing relations of culture and economy, transformation of nation states and national cultures and changing notions concerning affect and cognition, transform notions of literacy and reading. Relying on the results of a recent Finnish research project on new reading com...

RESEARCHER LINKS WORKSHOP: Improving Literacy: Understanding Reading Development and Reading Difficulties across the Lifespan

Previous studies showed that Chinese dyslexics exhibit more pronounced visual crowding effect (VCE) than controls and that VCE was modulated by character-spacing (Bai et al., 2016). Visual complexity of Chinese characters (defined by stroke numbers) can also modulate VCE (Zhang et al., 2009). In current study, we investigated how visual complexity (average strokes: below 8 / above 12) and chara...

Reading Fluency: Critical Issues for Struggling Readers

Lexical Reading in Dysfluent Readers of German

Dyslexia in consistent orthographies like German is characterized by dysfluent reading, which is often assumed to result from failure to build up an orthographic lexicon and overreliance on decoding. However, earlier evidence indicates effects of lexical processing at least in some German dyslexic readers. We investigated variations in reading style in an eye-tracking paradigm with German dysfl...

Child readers’ eye movements in reading Thai

It has recently been found that adult native readers of Thai, an alphabetic scriptio continua language, engage similar oculomotor patterns as readers of languages written with spaces between words; despite the lack of inter-word spaces, first and last characters of a word appear to guide optimal placement of Thai readers' eye movements, just to the left of word-centre. The issue addressed by th...