The article considers the problem of literacy formation in primary school age. categorical paradigm to understand "Reading literacy", "Functional competence" and activity" through prism domestic European scientific views was defined a close connection established between them. focuses Ramus on reading activity students foreign language, analyzes achievements national educational concept "New Uk...

still comparatively young, they realize when 15 or 16, the importance of reading. However, being forced to go through the initial stages where scarcely any other reading matter is available but that written for much younger children, they detest reading though attracted at the same time to a skill which seems so necessary to all other people. This regret and disappointment may assist considerab...

Books for beginning readers typically intermix text and pictures in close proximity. The proximity of difficult-todecode text to pictures may induce competition between these sources of information. As a result, children may frequently shift gaze between text and pictures, which may degrade memory representations of the text and reduce comprehension. A mobile eye tracker was used to measure chi...

In eye movement research in reading, the amount of data plays a crucial role for the validation of results. A methodological problem for the analysis of the eye movement in reading are blinks, when readers close their eyes. Blinking rate increases with increasing reading time, resulting in high data losses, especially for older adults or reading impaired subjects. We present a method, based on ...

Language development entails four fundamental and interactive abilities: listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Over the past four decades, a large body of evidence has indicated that reading acquisition is strongly associated with a child's listening skills, particularly the child's sensitivity to phonological structures of spoken language. Furthermore, it has been hypothesized that the cl...

This paper considers primary school texts as resources for teaching reading and children's literature, applying principles of close New Historicism theory to explore the effects on changing social, political, pedagogical contexts in twentieth century. Particular issues discussed are predominant themes ideologies, narrative technique, representations systems authority control, positioning child ...

Digital culture is impacting heavily on young people’s lives, be it through their own attachment to social media mobile devices or the new Covid-19 demands distance online education. Maryanne Wolf in Reader, Come Home (2018) argues her cognitive neuroscientific studies reading that mind of readers changing given they are constantly using (mobile phones, computers). One issues debates loss deep ...

Applied Linguistics and Applied Literature in the sense that we would like to use them should result in academic activities that are social in their orientation. Academics are not isolated individuals equipped with scientific tools and working within laboratory like situations. Their close encounter with the real world situations is a fundamental necessity. Reading theories and literary texts i...