Reading in a Second Language: Moving from

What is known about first and second language reading? Do research findings have implications for reading instruction? This innovative volume explores these and many other essential questions about reading and expands the study of L2 reading by bringing to the fore extensive L1 reading research.

William Grabe is Regents Professor of Applied Linguistics in the English Department at Northern Arizona University where he teaches in the MA-TESL and PhD in Applied Linguistics programs.

Series editors' preface	p. xi
Preface	p. xiii
Foundations of Reading	p. 1
The nature of reading: Defining reading	p. 4
How reading works: The building blocks of fluency and comprehension	p. 21
How reading works: Comprehension processes	p. 39
Cognitive issues in reading	p. 59
Models and more models of reading: Explaining reading	p. 83
Patterns of Variation in Reading	p. 107
Reading in different languages	p. 109
L1 and L2 reading relationships	p. 129
The social contexts of reading	p. 152
Motivation for reading	p. 175
Developing Reading Comprehension Abilities	p. 195
Building main-idea comprehension	p. 198
Becoming a strategic reader	p. 220
Building awareness of discourse structure	p. 243
Vocabulary and reading comprehension	p. 265
Expanding Reading Comprehension Skills	p. 287
Reading fluency, reading rate, and comprehension	p. 289
Extensive reading	p. 311
The reading curriculum and instruction	p. 329
Reading assessment	p. 352
Further topics and issues in reading	p. 376
References	p. 391
Author Index	p. 455
Subject Index	p. 460
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Reading in a Second Language: Moving from Theory to Practice

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