Language and Learning to Read Author:Richard E. Hodges Originally published by Houghton Mifflin Company in 1972, this book constitutes the report of a conference held in May 1970 in conjunction with the annual meeting of the International Reading Association. This conference was sponsored by The Psycholinguistics and Reading Committee of the International Reading Association, the Tri-University Proj... more »ect in Elementary Education of the University of Nebraska, the National Conference on Research in English, and the Center for Applied Linguistics. Its participants were individuals whose work relates to reading instruction. Its goal was to provide these individuals with an overview of the important advances being made in language study and the consequences of such information for reading instruction. Contents: The Nature of Language; Language and Language Development; Language Differences Among Learners; The Nature of the Writing System; Perception in the Reading Process; The Process of Reading; Language and Meaning; and Language Thinking. Suitable for graduate students and reading specialists, as well as students enrolled in methods courses on reading and language arts.« less