Synopses & Reviews
Reading is a multi-faceted, complex construct, and its complexity increases in second-language reading. In this critical volume, Keiko Koda provides an in-depth analysis of second language readings' multiple dimensions, presenting syntheses of current research on first and second language reading. She applies cross-linguistic analyses of the research, and she explores potential new directions for expanding current research paradigms. Insights into Second Language Reading has remarkable scope, ranging from issues in visual word recognition and text structure, encompassing theoretical issues pertaining to lexical and synctatic decoding mechanisms, and covering practical issues concerning assessment and teaching In synthesizing current research findings, Keiko Koda demonstrates how the complex phenomenon of reading can be systematically studied. Providing ways for enhancing literacy acquisition, second-language learning, and bilingual processing, Insights into Second Language Reading serves as a useful guide for graduate students, college professors, researchers, and foreign language teachers.
Synopsis
Covers all major components of reading, explaining how it differs in first and second languages.
Synopsis
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.
Synopsis
This critical volume, provides an in-depth analysis of second language reading's multiple dimensions.
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.