Understanding Advanced Second-Language Reading by Bernhardt, Elizabeth;

Rövid leírás:

What distinguishes this book is its broad, yet thorough, view of theory, process, and research on adult second-language reading, firmly anchored in a theory of second language reading ─ the concept of compensatory processing.

Hosszú leírás:

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 reading


• is firmly anchored in a theory of second language reading ─ the concept of compensatory processing


• emphasizes the multi-dimensionality and dynamic nature of L2 reading development


• focuses on comprehension of upper-register literary texts


• balances theory and instructional practices.

Filling 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.

Tartalomjegyzék:

Preface 
1. Exploring the Complexities of Second-language Reading 
2. A Compensatory Theory of Second-language Reading 
3. Sketching the Landscape of Second-language Reading Research 
4. Compensatory Theory in Second-language Reading Instruction 
5. Second-language Readers and Literary Text 
6. Assessing the Learning and Teaching of Comprehension in a Second Language 
7. Continuing to Research Second-language Reading 
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