Lenses on Reading

The three important reading models are Gough’s Model, The Automatic Information Processing Model and The Interactive Model.

Gough’s Model

A. 

 This model is linear and also refered to as a “bottom-up” model. There are a series of discrete stages within Gough’s model. It begins as the eye sees each letter of text. The image is held and scanned for patterns of lines and curves. This is then stored briefly in the character register once the letter is identifies the decoding process begins. Phonemes are attached to each letter from the code book. These phonemes are then recorded as a shound in the phonemic tape. The sounds are then put together in the librarian where the lexicon is searched for meaning.

B. Gough’s model is similar to Adams’ model in a sense that different processes are occuring to identify words however, in Gough’s model it happens in stages. Adam’s model is a simultaneous process.

Automatic Information Processing Model

A. This is another linear model that states reading begins with visual processing of text. The graphic input of text is processed in the visual memory. The visual memory uses features such as lines and curves and angles. After this happens  it is on to the phonological memory where sounds are attached to the visual images. Next the target information is recorded in the episodic memory. The central component is attention. There are two types, external and internal. External attention is observable in a student when they appear to have their eyes and ears gathering information. Internal attention is what is going on inside the mind.

B. The similarity in this model compared to Adams’ is that visual information is taken in to be processed however, this model is linear and Adams’ model shows information being processed simultaneously.

Interactive Model

A. The beginning of this model is similar to Gough’s Model and The Automatic Information Processing Model. The process starts with visual text input. This model is interactive as the name implies. A variety of processors converge on visual information simultaneously. The syntactic, semantic, orthographic and lexical information is processed at the same time. This permits the interaction of both higher and lower level processing of visual text input. This results in the most probable interpretation ot the text.

B. This model appears to most closely resembles the simultaneous processes that occur in Adams’ model.  There are four processors working at the same time to make the most probable understanding of text.