Routledge Comprehension Processes in Reading

Comprehension Processes in Reading addresses the interrelationship among several areas relevant to understanding how people comprehend text. The contributors focus on the on-line processes associated with text understanding rather than simply with the product of that comprehension -- what people remember from reading. Presenting the latest theories and research findings from a distinguished group of contributors, Comprehension Processes in Reading is divided into four major sections. Each section, concluding with a commentary chapter, discusses a different aspect of reader understanding or dysfunction such as individual word comprehension, sentence parsing, text comprehension, and comprehension failures and dyslexia . Review "In an era when many edited volumes can safely be ignored, this is one to which scholars of reading will want to pay some attention. The editors have given careful thought to its composition, and the outcome is both interesting and useful."—American Scientist "Clearly, the book provides a timely and up-to-date look at how the very latest ideas in cognitive science are being utilized in comprehension research...As a compendium of the best current research on the nature of comprehension, there is nothing to beat this volume."—Contemporary Psychology