Browsing UiS Brage by Journals "L1 Educational Studies in Language and Literature"
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Code and comprehension in written language : Considering limitations to the simple view of reading
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2011)The Simple View of Reading (SVR) was introduced by Gough and Tunmer in 1986 as a model to predict reading comprehension by means of two factors: decoding and linguistic comprehension. Over time, the SVR has acquired the ... -
Minding metaphors : Rethinking the ecology of written language
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2011)The field of reading and literacy studies has undergone large changes in the past three decades. A branch referred to as New Literacy Studies has established itself alongside the traditional school of psychological reading ... -
The ABC of reading : perspectives on the alphabetic principle
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2011)An alphabetic writing system is a system in which words consist of individual letters that corre-spond to spoken-language units at a similar level of analysis. The systematic relationships between units of these two systems ... -
Understanding reading development : a phenomenological perspective
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2011)The starting point of this article is a challenge presented to the research community in recent reviews of reading research and practice (Alexander & Fox 2004, 2007; Fox & Alexander 2009). That challenge is twofold in that ... -
What are skills? Some fundamental reflections
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2011)When the concept of ‘skill’ is used in reading and writing research or more generally in linguis-tic research, it is rarely made the subject of detailed and precise definitions or reflections. The present article is a ...