Reading and Language Learning

This volume explores how reading and language learning are interrelated, and in so doing, shed substantial light on the unique nature of reading development in a second language. The topics addressed include 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.

Keiko Koda is Professor of Second Language Acquisition and Japanese at Carnegie Mellon University. Her research interests include second-language reading, biliteracy development, and psycholinguistics. She is currently a member of the editorial boards of Reading and Writing, Reading Research Quarterly, Modern Language Journal, Research in Second Language Learning, and the International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching. She is the author of Insights into Second Language Reading (2005) and a co-editor of Learning to Read across Languages (forthcoming).