Understanding Advanced Second-Language Reading

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 ...

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• Authors: Elizabeth Bernhardt, Elizabeth (Stanford University Bernhardt, Elizabeth B Bernhardt, Elizabeth B. Bernhardt, Elizabeth B. (Stanford University Bernhardt, Feggy Ostrosky-Solis
• Assisted by: Ostrosky-Solis Feggy (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.07.2010
• EAN: 9780415879101
• ISBN: 978-0-415-87910-1
• No. of pages: 218
• Subjects: Education and learning > Miscellaneous; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; EDUCATION / General, FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / English as a Second Language, EDUCATION / Bilingual Education, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Literacy, Child & developmental psychology, Child, developmental and lifespan psychology, Teaching of a specific subject, Bilingualism & multilingualism, Bilingualism and multilingualism