An adequate level of linguistic complexity in learning materials is believed to be of crucial
importance for learning. The implication for school textbooks is that reading complexity …

Summarizing research on a topic as complex as second-language literacy is a Herculean
task. The complexity of the Panel's work is revealed in the topic-based organization and in …

As the crisis of education in culturally heterogeneous industrialized societies grows, the
educational failure of the poor has in some circles come to be seen primarily as a language …

This volume unites spelling and word recognition--two areas that have largely remained
theoretically and empirically distinct. Despite considerable advances in the investigation of …

There is intense public interest in questions surrounding how children learn to read and how
they can best be taught. Research in psychological science has provided answers to many …

The current study unites multiple theories (ie, the orthographic depth hypothesis and
linguistic grain size theory, the simple view of reading, and the common underlying …

One source of potential difficulty for struggling readers is the variability of texts across grade
levels. This article explores the use of automatic natural language processing techniques to …

Literacy occupies a central role in processes that interest applied linguists the most,
including language learning and language. The field of applied linguistics benefits from …

High quality lexical representations in memory, characterized by accuracy and stability, are
said to underpin fluent reading. Here, the relationship between orthographic quality and …

A multi-disciplinary series presenting studies on written language, with special emphasis on
its uses in different social and cultural settings. The series combines sociolinguistic and …