Learning Outcomes
- Describe the various pieces of evidence that is used by researchers of reading.
- Evaluate the difference between different types of reading disorders.
- Understand the basics of the dual-route and connectionist models of reading.
Activities for week 11
- Read Chapter 8
- Reading Models
- Reading Disorders
Learning Activities
Living Language
Canada has its own syllabic writing system used to write languages such as Algonquian and Inuit. In this writing system, the orientation and size of the letters is what modifies the pronunciation rather than other diacritics.
- Think of which route would be used to read words and non-words in these languages.
- How would you recognize surface and phonological dyslexia in these languages?
- What mechanisms may be needed to process size and orientation in the grapheme-to-phoneme system?
Reading with the Dual-route Model
