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Scripts and Literacy

Reading and Learning to Read Alphabets, Syllabaries and Characters

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  • © 1995

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Editors:
  1. Insup Taylor

    1. The McLuhan Program in Culture and Technology, University of Toronto, Canada

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  2. David R. Olson

    1. The Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, Canada

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Part of the book series: Neuropsychology and Cognition (NPCO, volume 7)

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Table of contents (23 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vii
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  2. An Introduction to Reading the World’s Scripts

    1. An Introduction to Reading the World’s Scripts

      • Insup Taylor, David R. Olson
      Pages 1-15

  5. Early Stage of Learning to Read

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 197-197
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    2. Teaching Japanese Toddlers to Read Kanji and Kana

      • Miho T. Steinberg
      Pages 199-214

    3. Asymmetries Between Reading and Writing for Japanese Children

      • Jun Yamada
      Pages 215-230

    4. Reading Disabilities in Japan: Implications from the Study of Hemisphere Functioning

      • Takeshi Hatta, Takehiko Hirose
      Pages 231-246

    5. Writing Systems and Acquisition of Reading in American, Chinese, and Japanese First-Graders

      • Shin-Ying Lee, David H. Uttal, Chuansheng Chen
      Pages 247-263
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Keywords

About this book

Literacy is a concern of all nations of the world, whether they be classified as developed or undeveloped. A person must be able to read and write in order to function adequately in society, and reading and writing require a script. But what kinds of scripts are in use today, and how do they influence the acquisition, use and spread of literacy? Scripts and Literacy is the first book to systematically explore how the nature of a script affects how it is read and how one learns to read and write it. It reveals the similarities underlying the world's scripts and the features that distinguish how they are read.
Scholars from different parts of the world describe several different scripts, e.g. Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Indian Amerindian -- and how they are learned. Research data and theories are presented.
This book should be of primary interest to educators and researchers in reading and writing around the world.

Editors and Affiliations

  • The McLuhan Program in Culture and Technology, University of Toronto, Canada

    Insup Taylor

  • The Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, Canada

    David R. Olson

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Scripts and Literacy

  • Book Subtitle: Reading and Learning to Read Alphabets, Syllabaries and Characters

  • Editors: Insup Taylor, David R. Olson

  • Series Title: Neuropsychology and Cognition

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-1162-1

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1995

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-2912-1Published: 31 January 1995

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-4506-3Published: 20 October 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-011-1162-1Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0927-0116

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VII, 389

  • Topics: Comparative Linguistics, Psycholinguistics

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