A comprehensive overview of important contemporary issues in the field of reading research
from the mid 1980s to mid 1990s, this well-received volume offers readers an examination of …

Typography and Language in Everyday Life provides a detailed look at graphic as well as
linguistic aspects of language and suggests there is much to be gained from collaboration …

Statistical methods of describing prosody were used to study fluency, expressiveness and
their relationship among 8—10-year-old readers. 67 children were rated on fluency and …

Designing Instructional and Informational Text Page 1 DESIGNING INSTRUCTIONAL AND
INFORMATIONAL TEXT James Hartley University of Keele 34.1 INTRODUCTION This chapter is …

El objetivo del estudio es el diseño y la validación de una escala para medir la fluidez
lectora. Junto a las medidas de velocidad y precisión, se consideran diferentes dimensiones …

In two reading experiments, we examined the efficacy of the commercial reading assistance
application BeeLine Reader which colours the letters of digital texts in gradients. According …

Sir Cyril Burt contributed to five main areas of typographical research: spacing words and
text; the use of serifs; the effects of typefaces, typesizes and line‐lengths on reading …

This paper describes part of the work of the Typographic Design for Children project at The
University of Reading. The aim was to find out whether children found serif or sans serif …

This chapter has two main sections. The first one reviews current findings in a number of
areas related to the typographic design of instructional text. The second one focuses on …

This paper describes two tests designed to find out whether children would be helped in
their reading by the use of word and letter spacing that was looser or tighter than commonly …