Reading in a second language :
Reading in a second language : cognitive and psycholinguistic issues /
edited by Xi Chen, Vedran Dronjic, and Rena Helms-Park.
- xvii, 315 pages ; 23 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
List of illustrations
List of contributors
Preface
Acknowledgements
1 From proto-writing to multimedia literacy: scripts and orthographies through the ages
2 Reading, brain, and cognition
3 Development of word recognition in a second language
4 Cross-language transfer of metalinguistic and cognitive skills in second language learning
5 The role of lexical knowledge in second language reading
6 Higher-level processes in second language reading comprehension
7 The social context of second language literacy and biliteracy
8 Problems with reading
9 Reading instruction in a technological age
Index
9780415893923
2015024839
Reading (Higher education)
Second language acquisition.
English language--Study and teaching (Higher)--Foreign speakers.
Reading comprehension.
Psycholinguistics.
LB2395.3 / .R43 2016
418.40711 CHE
Includes bibliographical references and index.
List of illustrations
List of contributors
Preface
Acknowledgements
1 From proto-writing to multimedia literacy: scripts and orthographies through the ages
2 Reading, brain, and cognition
3 Development of word recognition in a second language
4 Cross-language transfer of metalinguistic and cognitive skills in second language learning
5 The role of lexical knowledge in second language reading
6 Higher-level processes in second language reading comprehension
7 The social context of second language literacy and biliteracy
8 Problems with reading
9 Reading instruction in a technological age
Index
9780415893923
2015024839
Reading (Higher education)
Second language acquisition.
English language--Study and teaching (Higher)--Foreign speakers.
Reading comprehension.
Psycholinguistics.
LB2395.3 / .R43 2016
418.40711 CHE