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Record Nr.

UNINA9910163924703321

Autore

Seidenberg Mark S.

Titolo

Language at the speed of sight : how we read, why so many can't, and what can be done about it / / Mark Seidenberg

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Basic Books, an imprint of Perseus Books, a division of PBG Publishing, LLC, a subsidiary of Hachette Book Group, Inc., , [2017]

ISBN

1-5416-9798-7

0-465-08065-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (357 pages)

Disciplina

428.40711

Soggetti

Reading (Higher education)

Language experience approach in education

Cognition disorders

Psycholinguistics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Part 1: Reading, writing, and speech: The problem and the paradox : Visible language : Writing: it's all Mesopotamian cuneiform to me : Part 2 How we read : The eyes have it : f u cn rd ths, u cn gt a gd jb n rdng rsch : Becoming a reader : Reading: the eternal triangle : dyslexia and its discontents : Brain bases of reading : Part 3 The educational challenges : how well does America read? : the two cultures of science and education : reading the future.