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Routledge
240 Pages
by
Routledge
240 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
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
Works Cited
Biography
Elizabeth B. Bernhardt is Professor, German Studies; John Roberts Hale Director of the Language Center; and The W. Warren Shelden University Fellow in Undergraduate Education at Stanford University, US.
