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CHILDREN'S EXPERIENCE OF READING AND NOTIONS OF UNITS IN LANGUAGE
Author(s) -
FRANCIS HAZEL
Publication year - 1973
Publication title -
british journal of educational psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.557
H-Index - 95
eISSN - 2044-8279
pISSN - 0007-0998
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8279.1973.tb00733.x
Subject(s) - psychology , vocabulary , reading (process) , cognition , linguistics , developmental psychology , cognitive psychology , philosophy , neuroscience
S ummary . Downing (1970) has shown that young children learning to read experience difficulty in understanding the technical vocabulary of teaching reading and has suggested that this is due to their inability to understand abstract concepts. This study confirms some of the difficulties and traces their resolution, attributing them not so much to the children's limited cognitive abilities and the abstract nature of the concepts, as to unfamiliarity with an analytical approach to language and to the range and overlap of reference in use of the terms.