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Orthographic
Memory
Prof.
Victor H. P. van Daal
Ph.D., Free University Amsterdam
Professor
of Special Education
National Centre for Reading Education and Reading Research
University of Stavanger, Norway
| Date |
21 January 2008 (Mon) |
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| Time |
11:00
am |
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| Venue |
Room
619, Sino Building, Chung Chi College, CUHK |
Seminar
Orthographic
memory contains representations of how words are written, which enables
us not only to immediately recognize words (=fluent reading) but also
to spell them accurately. In this talk, an overview of the theoretical
developments will be sketched, focusing on Share's 'self-teaching' mechanism
for building up an orthographic memory in beginning readers. Then a
series of experiments, carried out in Dutch, Norwegian, and English
will be presented and it will be shown how the outcomes of these experiments
can contribute to further specifying the theory of printed word learning.
Finally, plans for new research on yet unresolved issues will be discussed.
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