Understanding advanced second-language reading /
Bernhardt, Elizabeth B.
Understanding advanced second-language reading / Elizabeth B. Bernhardt. - 1st ed. - [S.l.] : Routledge, 2010. - 240 p. ; 23 cm.
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 teacher
0415879108 (paperback) $47.95 9780415879101 (paperback)
Understanding advanced second-language reading / Elizabeth B. Bernhardt. - 1st ed. - [S.l.] : Routledge, 2010. - 240 p. ; 23 cm.
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 teacher
0415879108 (paperback) $47.95 9780415879101 (paperback)