Insights into second language reading : a cross-linguistic approach
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Insights into second language reading : a cross-linguistic approach
（The Cambridge applied linguistics series / series editors, Michael H. Long and Jack C. Richards）
Cambridge University Press, 2005
- : hbk
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [275]-320)
"First published 2004"--T.p. verso of reprinting
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This critical volume, provides an in-depth analysis of second language reading's multiple dimensions. The paperback edition describes the complexity of reading and explains how reading differs in a first and second language. The book is broad in scope, covering all major aspects of the reading process and synthesizing all current reading research. The author provides a cross-linguistic orientation, explaining how first and second languages can mutually facilitate one another. This important volume offers strategies for enhancing literary acquisition, second-language learning and bilingual processing, and will serve as a valuable guide for graduate students, professors, researchers and foreign language teachers.
Table of Contents
- Part I. Theoretical Foundations: 1. Introduction
- 2. Theoretical underpinnings
- Part II. Essential Components: 3. Word recognition
- 4. Vocabulary knowledge
- 5. Intraword awareness and word-knowledge development
- 6. Information integration in sentence processing
- 7. Discourse processing
- 8. Text structure and comprehension
- Part III. Looking at the Whole: 9. Individual differences
- 10. Developing strategic reading
- Part IV. Theory into Practice: 11. Comprehension assessment
- 12. Comprehension instruction.
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