Understanding Advanced Second-Language Reading

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.

Book Details

• Author: Elizabeth B. Bernhardt
• Publisher: Routledge
• eBook ISBN: 9781136976254, 1136976256
• Print ISBN: 9780415879095, 0415879094
• Other ISBNs: 0415879108, 0203852400, 9780415879101, 9780203852408, 6612781998, 1282781995, 1136976264, 1136976213, 9786612781995, 9781282781993, 9781136976261, 9781136976216