Reading is recognized as being the most important skill needed by ESP learners in their field of study, and vocabulary knowledge is the most widely discussed component of effective ESP reading per se. However, research on how much the different types of words exert substantial influences over ESP reading comprehension remains scanty. To address this lacuna, the present study aimed to examine th...

The aim of the present study was to evaluate processes of lexical access, selection and early semantic access in young native Hungarian students as well as in dyslexics compensating successfully for their reading problems of developmental origin. The present study made use of the well-known lexical decision paradigm in which event-related potentials (ERPs) elicited by words, number-words and ps...

ABSTRACT: Purpose: The effect of letter-name spelling (phonetic vs. nonphonetic) and the type of text representation (consistent case vs. mixed case) on preschool children’s novel word reading and learning was examined. Method: Thirty-four preschool children who varied in their reading ability and, to a lesser extent, their letter-name knowledge, participated in the study. Four sets of novel wo...