Handbook of Literacy in Akshara Orthography
This volume examines the unique characteristics of akshara orthography and how they may affect literacy development and problems along with the implications for assessment and instruction. Even though akshara orthography is used by more than a billion peo
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R. Malatesha Joshi Catherine McBride Editors
Handbook of Literacy in Akshara Orthography
Literacy Studies Perspectives from Cognitive Neurosciences, Linguistics, Psychology and Education Volume 17
Series Editor: R. Malatesha Joshi, Texas A&M University, College Station, USA Editorial Board: Rui Alves, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal Linnea Ehri, CUNY Graduate School, New York, USA Usha Goswami, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK Catherine McBride Chang, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China Jane Oakhill, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK Rebecca Treiman, Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, USA
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 this series is to bring together the available research studies into a coherent body of knowledge. Publications in this series are of interest to 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. More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/7206
R. Malatesha Joshi • Catherine McBride Editors
Handbook of Literacy in Akshara Orthography
Editors R. Malatesha Joshi Department of Teaching, Learning, and Culture, College of Education and Human Development Texas A&M University College Station, TX, USA
Catherine McBride Department of Psychology The Chinese University of Hong Kong Hong Kong, China
ISSN 2214-000X ISSN 2214-0018 (electronic) Literacy Studies ISBN 978-3-030-05976-7 ISBN 978-3-030-05977-4 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-05977-4 Library of Congress Control Number: 2019935530 © Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. T
