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

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Reading (Higher education)
Second language acquisition.
English language--Study and teaching (Higher)--Foreign speakers.
Reading comprehension.
Psycholinguistics.

LB2395.3 / .R43 2016

418.40711 CHE