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TY - CHAP
T1 - Problems in text comprehension
T2 - current perspectives and recent research
AU - Oakhill, Jane
AU - Cain, Kate
PY - 1999
Y1 - 1999
N2 - This chapter begins with an outline of the processes needed for effective text understanding in skilled readers, and the levels at which problems in text comprehension might arise. This overview provides some relevant background for later discussion of how children’s comprehension can fail. We consider, in particular, the difficulties that children can have with reading, even when they are competent at single-word recognition. Although single word reading and comprehension skill are, in general, highly correlated, a substantial minority of children develop the former but not the latter skill.
AB - This chapter begins with an outline of the processes needed for effective text understanding in skilled readers, and the levels at which problems in text comprehension might arise. This overview provides some relevant background for later discussion of how children’s comprehension can fail. We consider, in particular, the difficulties that children can have with reading, even when they are competent at single-word recognition. Although single word reading and comprehension skill are, in general, highly correlated, a substantial minority of children develop the former but not the latter skill.
U2 - 10.1007/978-94-017-2772-3_11
DO - 10.1007/978-94-017-2772-3_11
M3 - Chapter
SN - 9780792355571
SN - 9789048151646
T3 - Neuropsychology and Cognition
SP - 177
EP - 192
BT - Problems and interventions in literacy development
A2 - Reitsma, Pieter
A2 - Verhoeven, Ludo
PB - Kluwer Academic Publishers
CY - Dordrecht
ER -