Interactive Approaches to Second Language Reading

by Edited by Patricia L. Carrell , Joanne Devine , David E. Eskey

• ISBN13: 9780521358743
• ISBN10: 0521358744
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1988-02-26
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

This text presents up-to-date theory, research, and classroom applications in second language reading from an interactive perspective. The paperback edition presents up-to-date theory, research, and classroom applications in second language reading from an interactive perspective. The book supports the view that reading in a second language involves more than decoding; instead, reading is seen as an interactive process whereby the learner's own background and knowledge contribute to understanding reading material. These articles are written by experts in the reading field, who present process models and discuss classroom applications. The book examines traditional approaches that focus on text and decoding skills, as well as more contemporary theories that consider the reader's base knowledge.

Table of Contents

List of contributors	ix
Series editors' preface	xi
Preface	xiii
Introduction: Interactive approaches to second language reading	1	(8)
Patricia L. Carrell
I INTERACTIVE MODELS OF READING	9	(62)
The reading process	11	(11)
Kenneth Goodman
Models of the reading process	22	(15)
S. Jay Samuels
Michael L. Kamil
A schema-theoretic view of basic processes in reading comprehension	37	(19)
Richard C. Anderson
P. David Pearson
Reassessing the term ``interactive''	56	(15)
William Grabe
II INTERACTIVE APPROACHES TO SECOND LANGUAGE READING - THEORY	71	(54)
Schema theory and ESL reading pedagogy	73	(20)
Patricia L. Carrell
Joan C. Eisterhold
Holding in the bottom: an interactive approach to the language problems of second language readers	93	(8)
David E. Eskey
Some causes of text-boundedness and schema interference in ESL reading	101	(13)
Patricia L. Carrell
The short circuit hypothesis of ESL reading - or when language competence interferes with reading performance	114	(11)
Mark A. Clarke
III INTERACTIVE APPROACHES TO SECOND LANGUAGE READING - EMPIRICAL STUDIES	125	(96)
A case study of two readers: models of reading and reading performance	127	(13)
Joanne Devine
Changes in cohension in the recall of native and foreign texts	140	(12)
Margaret S. Steffensen
Reading English for specialized purposes: discourse analysis and the use of student informants	152	(16)
Andrew Cohen
Hilary Glasman
Phyllis R. Rosenbaum-Cohen
Jonathan Ferrara
Jonathan Fine
This test is unfair: I'm not an economist	168	(15)
J. Charles Alderson
A. H. Urquhart
The effects of induced schemata on the ``short circuit'' in L2 reading: non-decoding factors in L2 reading performance	183	(23)
Thom Hudson
The Miscue-ESL Project	206	(15)
Pat Rigg
IV IMPLICATIONS AND APPLICATIONS OF INTERACTIVE APPROACHES TO SECOND LANGUAGE READING - PEDAGOGY	221	(58)
Interactive models for second language reading: perspectives on instruction	223	(16)
David E. Eskey
William Grabe
Interactive text processing: implications for ESL/second language reading classrooms	239	(21)
Patricia L. Carrell
The relationship between general language competence and second language reading proficiency: implications for teaching	260	(19)
Joanne Devine
Index	279