Contemporary perspectives on reading and spelling / edited by Clare Wood and Vincent Connelly

Includes bibliographical references and index

Phonological awareness : beyond phonemes / Clare Wood, Lesly Wade-Woolley & Andrew J. Holliman -- Auditory processing and developmental dyslexia : throwing the baby out with the bathwater? / Jennifer Thomson -- Acquiring complex reading skills : an exploration of disyllabic word reading / Lynne G. Duncan -- Children's reading comprehension difficulties : a consideration of the precursors and consequences / Kate Cain -- The acquisition of spelling patterns : early, late or never? / Nenagh Kemp -- Viewing spelling in a cognitive context : underlying representations and processes / Sarah Critten & Karen J. Pine -- What spelling errors have to tell about vocabulary learning / Ruth H. Bahr, Elaine R. Silliman & Virginia Berninger -- Reading and spelling development in transparent alphabetic orthographies : points of convergence, divergence and arising issues / Selma Babayigit -- How do children and adults conceptualise phoneme-letter relationships? / Annukka Lehtonen -- Do bilingual beginning readers activate the grapheme-phoneme correspondences of their two languages when reading in one language? / Vincent Goetry, Rine Kolinsky & Philippe Mousty -- Using spelling knowledge in a word game / Morag MacLean -- Metalinguistic and subcharacter skills in Chinese literacy acquisition / Xiuli Tong, Phil D. Liu & Catherine McBride-Chang -- Enhancing word reading, spelling and reading comprehension skills with synthetic phonics teaching : studies in Scotland and England / Rhona S. Johnson, Joyce E. Watson & Sarah Logan -- Does the type of reading instruction have an influence on how readers process print? / Vince Connelly ... [et al.] -- The cerebellar deficit theory of developmental dyslexia : evidence and implications for intervention / Shahrzad Irannejad & Robert Savage -- Teaching children with severe learning difficulties : routes to word recognition using logographic symbols / Kieron Sheehy and Andrew J. Holliman.