Understanding Advanced Second-Language Reading

<p>What distinguishes this book is its broad, yet thorough, view of theory, process, and research on adult second-language reading. Offering extensive discussions of upper-register second-language texts (both expository and narrative) that adult second-language readers encounter daily across the globe, it also presents an assessment schema for second-language text comprehension as well as for the assessment of teaching.</p><p> <em>Understanding Advanced Second-Language Reading</em>: </p><ul> <p> </p> <li>includes languages other than English in the discussion of second language reading</li> <li>is firmly anchored in a theory of second language reading ─ the concept of compensatory processing</li> <li>emphasizes the multi-dimensionality and dynamic nature of L2 reading development</li> <li>focuses on comprehension of upper-register literary texts </li> <li>balances theory and instructional practices.</li> </ul><p>Filling the need for a coherent, theoretically consistent, and research-based portrait of how literate adolescents and adults comprehend, and learn to comprehend, at greater levels of sophistication and whether that ability can be enhanced by instruction, this is a must-have resource for reading and second-language researchers, students, and teachers.</p> <p>Preface <br>1. Exploring the Complexities of Second-language Reading <br>2. A Compensatory Theory of Second-language Reading <br>3. Sketching the Landscape of Second-language Reading Research <br>4. Compensatory Theory in Second-language Reading Instruction <br>5. Second-language Readers and Literary Text <br>6. Assessing the Learning and Teaching of Comprehension in a Second Language <br>7. Continuing to Research Second-language Reading <br>Works Cited </p>