This chapter focuses on changes to written language and reviews what is known about the
processes involved in reading and in learning to read. It explores how skilled readers can …

McGuinness has suggested that there 'is no diagnosis and no evidence for any special type
of reading disorder like dyslexia', and that poor teaching accounts for low levels of English …

She explains that the ability to read depends on the ability to hear the sounds of our
language correctly, and on a working knowledge of something called the spelling code …

“A proper theory of speech is essential to an understanding of how people read—the most
relevant consideration arises out of the deep biological gulf that separates the two …

“… It was really a very nice appetizing bit of pischa they'd laid out on the tray—two or three
lomticks of like hot roast beef with mashed kartoffel and vedge, then there was also ice …

Discussing a wide range of literary theory in a clear and accessible way, prize-winning
author Robert Scholes here continues his ongoing construction of a humane semiotic …