Comprehension monitoring, an essential skill for competent reading, enables an individual to keep track of what he/she is reading in order to make sure the information makes sense. While comprehension monitoring is widely studied in reading as a first language (L1), it has not been well documented in second language (L2) reading and there is a dearth of studies in which a cross- lingual comparison is made of comprehension monitoring of the same reader when they read in L1 and L2. This book which is based on a study conducted with Chinese learners of English as a foreign language on...