This critical volume, provides an in-depth analysis of second language reading's multiple dimensions. The paperback edition describes the complexity of reading and explains how reading differs in a first and second language. The book is broad in scope, covering all major aspects of the reading process and synthesizing all current reading research. The author provides a cross-linguistic orientation, explaining how first and second languages can mutually facilitate one another. This important volume offers strategies for enhancing literary acquisition, second-language learning and bilingual processing, and will serve as a valuable guide for graduate students, professors, researchers and foreign language teachers.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 01/10/2005
ISBN: 9780521545136
Pages: 344
Weight: 1.01lbs
Size: 8.96h x 6.36w x 0.70d