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Name:

Reading Acquisition and Developmental Dyslexia

Code:

LING6022

Instructor:

Dr. W.T. Siok

Semester:

2

Requirement:

Elective

Assessment:

100% coursework

Time:

Tuesday, 6:30 pm - 9:30 pm (Venue: MB141)

Description:

This course aims to provide a theoretical understanding of reading development and reading disorders in different writing systems, with a specific focus on alphabetic (English) and logographic (Chinese) writing systems. Through attending the course, students will be able to understand how different cognitive processes contribute to the development of skilled word reading and text comprehension and what problems children may encounter during the course of reading development. Effective treatment and instruction approaches will also be discussed.

Assessment:

 

References:

You may wish  to read the following references to gain a better understanding on reading developmental and reading disorders:

 

Adams, M. J. (1990). Beginning to read: thinking and learning about print. The MIT Press, Cambridge.

 

Chall, J. S. (1996). Learning to read: The great debate. Harcourt Brace, New York.  3rd Edition.

 

Bradley, L., & Bryant, P. E. (1983). Categorizing sounds and learning to read -- a causal connection. Nature, 301, 419-421.

 

Ehri, L. C. (1998). Grapheme-phoneme knowledge is essential for learning to read words in English. In J. L. Metsala & L. C. Ehri (Eds.), Word recognition in beginning literacy (pp. 3-40). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

 

Foorman, B.R., Francis, D.J., Fletcher, J.M., Schatschneider, C., & Mehta, P. (1998). The role of instruction in learning to read:  Preventing reading failure in at-risk children. Journal of Educational Psychology, 90, 37-55.

 

Goswami, U. (1999). The relationship between phonological awareness and orthographic representation in different orthographies. In M. Harris & G. Hatano (Eds.), Learning to reading and write: A cross-linguistic perspective (pp. 134-156). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

 

Lyon, G. R. (1995). Towards a definition of dyslexia. Annals of Dyslexia, 45, 3-27.

 

Perfetti, C. A. (1991). Representations and awareness in the acquisition of reading competence. In L. Rieben & C. A. Perfetti, Charles A. (Eds.), Learning to read: Basic research and its implications (pp. 33-44). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.

 

Siok, W.T., Perfetti, C.A., Jin, Z., & Tan, L.H. (2004). Biological abnormality of impaired reading is constrained by culture. Nature, 431: 71-76.

 

Siok, W.T., & Fletcher, P. (2001). The role of phonological awareness and visual-orthographic skills in Chinese reading acquisition. Developmental Psychology. 36, 887-899.

 

Tan, L.H., Spinks, J.A., Eden, G., Perfetti, C.A., & Siok, W.T. (2005). Reading depends on writing, in Chinese. PNAS, 102, 8781-8785.

Wagner, R. K., & Torgesen, J. K. (1987). The nature of phonological processing and its causal role in the acquisition of reading skills. Psychological Bulletin, 101, 192-212.

 

Other reading materials will be distributed by the lecturer during class.

Syllabus:

 The course will cover the following topics:

 

Topic 1            Introduction to research in reading development

Topic 2            Cognitive factors underlying successful reading development

Topic 3            Models of reading and reading development

Topic 4            Developmental dyslexia: Definitions, theories, evidences, and

interventions. 

Topic 5            Other reading disorders

Topic 6            The impact of culture on reading development

Topic 7            Reading development in bilinguals

Topic 8            The teaching of reading

Lecture notes:

Week

Lecture topics and notes

Suggested Readings

1

Jan 17

Lecture 1 (notes)

Overview of course requirements and syllabus

Introduction to the study of reading development

 

2

Jan 24

Chinese New Year

 

3

Jan 31

Lecture 2 (notes)

Cognitive factors important for alphabetic reading development I

Methodological and statistical issues in reading development research

Rayner et al. (2001)

Bradley & Bryant (1983)

Wagner et al. (1997)

4

Feb 7

Lecture 3 (notes)

Cognitive factors important for alphabetic reading development II

Models for reading development

Rayner et al. (2001)

Read et al. (1986)

5

Feb 14

Lecture 4 (notes)

Reading development in different orthographies

Ziegler & Goswami (2005)

Siok & Fletcher (2001)

6

Feb 21

Lecture 5 (notes)

Reading development in Chinese

The neurobiological basis of reading

Siok & Fletcher (2001)

Tan et al. (2005)

7

Feb 28

Lecture 6 (notes)

The neurobiological basis of Chinese reading

Developmental dyslexia I

Lyon, Shaywitz & Shaywitz (2003)

8

Mar 6

Reading Week

 

9

Mar 13

Lecture 7 (notes)

Developmental dyslexia II

Ramus et al. (2003)

10

Mar 20

Lecture 8 (notes)

Developmental dyslexia III

Rozin et al. (1971)

Wydell & Butterworth (1999)

Paulesu et al. (2001)

Siok et al. (2004)

11

Mar 27

Lecture 9 (notes)

Developmental dyslexia IV

Reading instruction and intervention I

Foorman et al. (1998)

12

Apr 3

Lecture10 (notes)

Reading instruction and intervention II

Other development disorders showing reading deficits I

Foorman et al. (1998)

13

Apr 10

Lecture11 (notes)

Other development disorders showing reading deficits II

Reading development in bilinguals I

Tan (2005) HKJP

14

Apr 17

Lecture12 (notes)

Reading development in bilinguals II

Cognitive factors underlying reading comprehension

Course summary

Cain et al (2004)

 

 

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