Understanding advanced second-language reading
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Understanding advanced second-language reading
Routledge, 2011
- : pbk
- : hbk
Available at 22 libraries
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [192]-209) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
What distinguishes this book is its broad, yet thorough, view of theory, process, and research on adult second-language reading. Offering extensive discussions of upper-register second-language texts (both expository and narrative) that adult second-language readers encounter daily across the globe, it also presents an assessment schema for second-language text comprehension as well as for the assessment of teaching.
Understanding Advanced Second-Language Reading:
includes languages other than English in the discussion of second language reading
is firmly anchored in a theory of second language reading the concept of compensatory processing
emphasizes the multi-dimensionality and dynamic nature of L2 reading development
focuses on comprehension of upper-register literary texts
balances theory and instructional practices.
Filling the need for a coherent, theoretically consistent, and research-based portrait of how literate adolescents and adults comprehend, and learn to comprehend, at greater levels of sophistication and whether that ability can be enhanced by instruction, this is a must-have resource for reading and second-language researchers, students, and teachers.
Table of Contents
Preface
1. Exploring the Complexities of Second-language Reading
2. A Compensatory Theory of Second-language Reading
3. Sketching the Landscape of Second-language Reading Research
4. Compensatory Theory in Second-language Reading Instruction
5. Second-language Readers and Literary Text
6. Assessing the Learning and Teaching of Comprehension in a Second Language
7. Continuing to Research Second-language Reading
Works Cited
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