Insights into Second Language Reading

Author: None
Publisher: None
Publication Date: 2006-09-01
Features: 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.