Download or read book Executive Control Processes in Reading written by B. K. Britton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-28 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1987. The first thing the reader of this volume needs to know is: What is executive control in reading, exactly? Executive control processes coordinate the functioning of the human cognitive system. This book seeks to examine how mature, skilled readers use information about the difficulty and importance of text, and of their comprehension tasks in allocating their reading time and effort.