About this book series

While language defines humanity, literacy defines civilization. Understandably, illiteracy or difficulties in acquiring literacy skills have become a major concern of our technological society. A conservative estimate of the prevalence of literacy problems would put the figure at more than a billion people in the world. Because of the seriousness of the problem, research in literacy acquisition and its breakdown is pursued with enormous vigor and persistence by experts from diverse backgrounds such as cognitive psychology, neuroscience, linguistics and education. This, of course, has resulted in a plethora of data, and consequently it has become difficult to integrate this abundance of information into a coherent body because of the artificial barriers that exist among different professional specialties.

The purpose of this series is to bring together the available research studies into a coherent body of knowledge. Publications in this series are of interest to educators, clinicians and research scientists in the above-mentioned specialties.

Some of the titles suitable for the Series are: fMRI, brain imaging techniques and reading skills, orthography and literacy; and research based techniques for improving decoding, vocabulary, spelling, and comprehension skills.

Book proposals for this series may be submitted to the Publishing Editor: Amy Taylor-Snyman; Springer; Van Godewijckstraat 30; 3300 AA Dordrecht; The Netherlands;
e-mail: amy.taylor-snyman@springernature.com


Electronic ISSN
2214-0018
Print ISSN
2214-000X
Series Editor
  • R. Malatesha Joshi

Book titles in this series

  1. Developing Language and Literacy

    Studies in Honor of Dorit Diskin Ravid

    Editors:
    • Ronit Levie
    • Amalia Bar-On
    • Orit Ashkenazi
    • Elitzur Dattner
    • Copyright: 2022

    Available Renditions

    • Hard cover
    • Soft cover
    • eBook
  2. Handbook of Literacy in Africa

    Editors:
    • R. Malatesha Joshi
    • Catherine A. McBride
    • Bestern Kaani
    • Gad Elbeheri
    • Copyright: 2023

    Available Renditions

    • Hard cover
    • eBook

Abstracted and indexed in

  1. Norwegian Register for Scientific Journals and Series