Insights Into Second Language Reading

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.