Grabe, William.

Reading in a second language : moving from theory to practice / William Grabe. - 1 online resource (xv, 467 pages) : illustrations ;

Reading in a Second Language: Moving from Theory to Practice
Bill Grabe
Table of Contents
Preface

Section I: Foundations of Reading Comprehension
1. The Nature of Reading: Defining reading
2. How Reading Works: The Basic Building Blocks
3. How Reading Works: The Comprehension Process
4. Cognitive Issues in L2 Reading
5. Models, and More Models of Reading: Explaining Reading

Section II: Reading Variation and the L2 Reader
6. Reading in Different Languages
7. L1 and L2 Reading Relations
8. The Social Contexts of Reading
9. Motivation for Reading
Section III: Development of Reading Comprehension
10. Main Idea Comprehension
11. Becoming a Strategic Reader
12. Building Awareness of Discourse Structure
13. Vocabulary and Reading Comprehension
Section IV: Expanding Reading Comprehension Abilities
14. Reading Fluency
15. Extensive Reading
16. The Reading Curriculum
17. Reading Assessment

18. Further Topics and Issues in Reading

References
Index

9781139150484


Language and languages--Study and teaching.
Reading.
Second language acquisition.


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