Recent Explorations Into the Etiology of Reading Difficulties: Insights from Language and Cognition

MODERN COGNITIVE psychology provides conceptual and empirical tools for a process analysis of reading acquisition and the development of reading towards a sophisticated skill. The present review is aimed to give such an analysis as it stands now. Key concepts are phonological and linguistic awareness, schemata, learning strategies, metacognition and learning as a social interaction. These concepts and empirical results clarifying their function are discussed from the point of view of their mutual interplay and pedagogical application.