Insights Into Second Language Reading: A Cross-Linguistic Approach

ISBN-13: 9780521545136 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 344 str.

Keiko Koda; Michael H. Long; Jack C. Richards

Opis

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.