The Psychology of Reading | Psychology

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Originally published in 1984 this new introductory text fulfilled a need amongst both psychology and education students for a book which dealt with reading in a way that explored areas beyond the strictly practical question of how to teach children to read. Previous books on the psychology of reading had often concentrated on the analytic approach in which reading had been seen in terms of a set of interconnected sub-skills and the experimental study of these components had become an end in itself. As a result although great advances had been made in our understanding of certain aspects of the process psychological studies of reading had increasingly been seen by teachers and others as undu…