Reading Psychology (Revised Edition)

Author: Zhang Biyin
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Features: The purpose of this book is to introduce the basic content of reading psychology research, while also comparing existing Chinese reading research materials with English reading research. It primarily covers seven aspects, including the research objects of reading psychology, models of the reading process, cognitive processing of words, sentence comprehension, text structure analysis, cognitive monitoring, and the impact of motivation and social factors on reading. In the chapters on research objects and reading process models, the scope of reading psychology research and three reading process models are discussed. The section on word cognition introduces the content and structure of mental dictionaries and four issues in word cognition. The sentence comprehension section examines strategies for sentence comprehension and the processing of different types of sentences. The text comprehension section discusses the analysis and understanding of text structure. The last two chapters introduce understanding monitoring in reading and the impact of motivation, family, and schools on children's reading activities.