This volume, written by two of the foremost authors of language comprehension, Kate Cain and Jane Oakhill, represents an exhaustive analysis of the difficulties in comprehension experienced by different groups of children in typical and atypical populations. The editors start by defining comprehension – a complex task that represents the ultimate aim of listening and reading that permits a person to acquire information, to experience and be aware of other words, to communicate and, finally, to achieve academic success. They then analyse the difficulties that many children find when oral and written comprehension breaks down. The authors continue their analysis by presenting a collection of research relating to a diverse range of populations with written and spoken language comprehension impairment and expose a series of theories and emerging models of the various sub-components of the comprehension process, including factors that may influence comprehension development, with particular attention to the higher-level text integration processes and the level of discourse and inference.

Children's comprehension problems in oral and written language: acognitive perspective

BELTRAME, Rossella
2010-01-01

Abstract

This volume, written by two of the foremost authors of language comprehension, Kate Cain and Jane Oakhill, represents an exhaustive analysis of the difficulties in comprehension experienced by different groups of children in typical and atypical populations. The editors start by defining comprehension – a complex task that represents the ultimate aim of listening and reading that permits a person to acquire information, to experience and be aware of other words, to communicate and, finally, to achieve academic success. They then analyse the difficulties that many children find when oral and written comprehension breaks down. The authors continue their analysis by presenting a collection of research relating to a diverse range of populations with written and spoken language comprehension impairment and expose a series of theories and emerging models of the various sub-components of the comprehension process, including factors that may influence comprehension development, with particular attention to the higher-level text integration processes and the level of discourse and inference.
2010
Children's; comprehension; language
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