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9780415879095

Understanding Advanced Second-Language Reading

by Bernhardt; Elizabeth B.
  • ISBN13:

    9780415879095

  • ISBN10:

    0415879094

  • eBook ISBN(s):

    9781136976254

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2010-07-14
  • Publisher: Routledge

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Summary

What distinguishes this book is its broad, yet thorough, view of theory, process, and research on adult second-language reading. Offering extensive discussions of upper-register second-language texts (both expository and narrative) that adult second-language readers encounter daily across the globe, it also presents an assessment schema for second-language text comprehension as well as for the assessment of teaching. Understanding Advanced Second-Language Reading :Includes languages other than English in the discussion of second language readingIs firmly anchored in a theory of second language reading '” the concept of compensatory processingEmphasizes the multi-dimensionality and dynamic nature of L2 reading developmentFocuses on comprehension of upper-register literary textsBalances theory and instructional practicesFilling the need for a coherent, theoretically consistent, and research-based portrait of how literate adolescents and adults comprehend, and learn to comprehend, at greater levels of sophistication and whether that ability can be enhanced by instruction, this is a must-have resource for reading and second-language researchers, students, and teachers.

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