Current Issues in Bilingualism Cognitive and Socio-linguistic Perspe
As populations become more mobile, so interest grows in bi- and multilingualism, particularly in the context of education. This volume focuses on the singular situation in Israel, whose complex multiculturalism has Hebrew and Arabic as official languages,
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LITERACY STUDIES
VOLUME 5
Series Editor: R. Malatesha Joshi, Texas A&M University, USA Editorial Board: Linnea Ehri, CUNY Graduate School, USA George Hynd, Purdue University, USA Richard Olson, University of Colorado, USA Pieter Reitsma, Vrije University Amsterdam, the Netherlands Rebecca Treiman, Washington University in St. Louis, USA Usha Goswami, University of Cambridge, UK Jane Oakhill, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK Philip Seymour, University of Dundee, UK Guinevere Eden, Georgetown University Medical Center, USA Catherine McBride Chang, Chinese University of Hong Kong, China
While language defines humanity, literacy defines civilization. Understandably, illiteracy or difficulties in acquiring literacy skills have become a major concern of our technological society. A conservative estimate of the prevalence of literacy problems would put the figure at more than a billion people in the world. Because of the seriousness of the problem, research in literacy acquisition and its breakdown is pursued with enormous vigor and persistence by experts from diverse backgrounds such as cognitive psychology, neuroscience, linguistics and education. This, of course, has resulted in a plethora of data, and consequently it has become difficult to integrate this abundance of information into a coherent body because of the artificial barriers that exist among different professional specialties. The purpose of the proposed series is to bring together the available research studies into a coherent body of knowledge. Publications in this series are intended for use by educators, clinicians and research scientists in the above-mentioned specialties. Some of the titles suitable for the Series are: fMRI, brain imaging techniques and reading skills, orthography and literacy; and research based techniques for improving decoding, vocabulary, spelling, and comprehension skills.
A complete list of titles published in this series can be viewed by going to the following URL: http://www.springer.com/series/7206
Mark Leikin Mila Schwartz Yishai Tobin Editors
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Editors Mark Leikin University of Haifa Faculty of Education Department of Learning Disabilities Haifa Israel [email protected]
Mila Schwartz Research and Evaluation Authority Oranim Academic College of Education Kiryat Tivon Israel Edmond J. Safra Brain Research Center for the Study of Learning Disabilities University of Haifa Haifa Israel [email protected]
Yishai Tobin Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Department of Foreign Literatures & Linguistics Be’er Sheva Israel [email protected]
ISBN 978-94-007-2326-9 e-ISBN 978-94-007-2327-6 DOI 10.1007/978-94-007-2327-6 Springer Dordrecht Heidelberg London New York Library of Congress Control Number: 2011938585 # Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2012 No part of this work may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, microfilming, recording or otherwise, w
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