ABSTRACT
The next three chapters (Chapters 9 –11) focus on the four main language skills. Chapter 10 deals with the basic processes involved in reading and in listening to speech. There is an emphasis in this chapter on the ways in which readers and listeners identify and make sense of individual words that they read on the printed page or hear in speech. As we will see, the study of brain-damaged patients has helped to reveal the complexity of the processes underlying reading and speech recognition.
