Insights into Second Language Reading
A Cross-Linguistic Approach

This critical volume, provides an in-depth analysis of second language reading's multiple dimensions.

Keiko Koda (Author)

9780521545136, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 10 January 2005

344 pages
22.8 x 15.1 x 2.3 cm, 0.462 kg

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.

Subject Areas: Applied linguistics for ELT [EBAL]