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...
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