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[Studies in Written Language and Literacy 15] 2017
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Putting the learning into orthographic learning

 | University of Oxford
 | Macquarie University
Published online: 14 August 2017
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Article outline
  • 1.The self-teaching hypothesis
  • 2.Investigating learning within the self-teaching framework
    • (i)Orthographic processing skill
    • (ii)Context and meaning
  • 3.Learning from experience and becoming an expert
    • i.What's the learning factor?
    • ii.Becoming lexical
  • 4.Modelling orthographic learning
  • 5.Conclusions and future directions
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes
  • References
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