Includes bibliographical references and index.

Front Matter -- Preliminary Material / Rosalind Horowitz and S. Jay Samuels -- Contributors / Rosalind Horowitz and S. Jay Samuels -- Preface / Rosalind Horowitz and S. Jay Samuels -- Acknowledgments / Rosalind Horowitz and S. Jay Samuels -- Chapter 1 Comprehending Oral and Written Language: Critical Contrasts for Literacy and Schooling / Rosalind Horowitz and S. Jay Samuels -- Chapter 2 Spoken and Written Modes of Meaning / M. A. K. Halliday -- Chapter 3 Properties of Spoken and Written Language / Wallace Chafe and Jane Danielewicz -- Chapter 4 Rhetorical Structure in Discourse Processing / Rosalind Horowitz -- Chapter 5 Episodic Models in Discourse Processing / Teun A. van Dijk -- Chapter 6 The Role of Context in Written Communication / Martin Nystrand -- Chapter 7 Listening and Reading Processes in College- and Middle School-Age Readers / David J. Townsend , Caroline Carrithers , and Thomas G. Bever -- Chapter 8 Prosody and Structure in Children’s Syntactic Processing / Peter A. Schreiber -- Chapter 9 Processing Strategies for Reading and Listening / Joseph H. Danks and Laurel J. End -- Chapter 10 Factors That Influence Listening and Reading Comprehension / S. Jay Samuels -- Chapter 11 From Meaning to Definition: A Literate Bias on the Structure of Word Meaning / Rita Watson and David R. Olson -- Chapter 12 Language, Speech, and Print: Some Asymmetries in the Acquisition of Literacy / Charles A. Perfetti -- Chapter 13 A Comparison of the Two Theories about Development in Written Language: Implications for Pedagogy and Research / Sandra Stotsky -- Back Matter -- Index / Rosalind Horowitz and S. Jay Samuels.

Written by respected researchers in their field, this book is about the skills beyond basic word recognition that are necessary for the processing and comprehension of spoken and written language. The major topics presented are as follows: language and text analysis; cognitive processing and comprehension; development of literacy; literacy and schooling; and, factors influencing listening and reading.

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