Elizabeth Bernhardt

Understanding Advanced Second-Language Reading

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Looks at the theory, process, and research on adult second-language reading. Offering discussions of upper-register second-language texts that adult second-language readers encounter daily across the globe, this title also presents an assessment schema for second-language text comprehension as well as for the assessment of teaching.

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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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Juli 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 490g
• ISBN-13: 9780415879095
• ISBN-10: 0415879094
• Artikelnr.: 31080928

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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