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A Response to Perfetti's Reading Ability: Cognitive and Psycholinguistic Perspectives (1985).

A Response to Chapter One of Reading Ability : "Reading Ability: Cognitive and Psycholinguistic Perspectives," pp. 3-10.                                   in  Charles A. Perfett i's Reading Ability .   Oxford University Press , 1985 -   Language Arts & Disciplines   -   282 pages. My Reading Response           Summary                     In chapter one, Perfetti (1985) presents a picture of reading ability in terms of the cognitive processes of reading.  Lexical access processes encompass the ability to identify words, and comprehension,  which is a multi-faceted component of reading that allows the reader to construct a text model.  Reading ability and language are related, and comprehension processes and word recognit...