Overview
Reading and language learning are interdependent.
While reading necessitates linguistic knowledge, reading ability enhances linguistic knowledge expansion. This volume explores the reciprocal relationship between reading and language learning.
- Explores how reading and language learning are interrelated, bringing new insights to discussions on the unique nature of reading development in a second language
- Covers topics including cross-linguistic constraints on second-language reading development, bilingualism and literacy, linguistic resources and reading strategies, incidental vocabulary acquisition through reading, local language processing and global text comprehension, and cross-linguistic effects on word identification
- Views second-language reading as a multi-faceted and multi-lingual construct
- Examines a variety of reading sub-skills, ranging from word identification to discourse comprehension.
The book, Reading and Language Learning (Best of Language Learning Series) [Bulk, Wholesale, Quantity] ISBN#9781405175746 in Paperback by may be ordered in bulk quantities. Minimum starts at 25 copies. Availability based on publisher status and quantity being ordered.
Details
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
11/05/2007
ISBN-13:
9781405175746
Pages:
232
Publisher:
Wiley
