A collection of professional essays, designed for pedagogical methods courses, surveying assumptions, trends, theories, and practices pertinent to second-language teaching and learning and covering problems and techniques, grammar, reading, writing, and v
A collection of professional essays, designed for pedagogical methods courses, surveying assumptions, trends, theories, and practices pertinent to second-language teaching and learning and covering problems and techniques, grammar, reading, ...
Emphasis is on English as a second language.
"general purpose" texts that don't demand specialized information which readers
may have in varying degrees, they find that discipline- specific information
possessed by the second language reader dramatically interacts with the ...
Reading is a multi-faceted, complex construct, and its complexity increases in second-language reading. In this volume, the author provides an in-depth analysis of the multiple dimensions of second language reading, presenting syntheses of current research on first and second language reading. (Miswest).
Language transfer has long been a central concern among L2 researchers. As
an outgrowth of the contrastive analysis (CA) hypothesis, transfer concepts were
widely endorsed in the 1950s and 1960s. Their basic hypothesis, a derivative of ...
A Co-Publication of Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc. and The International Reading Association This book is a shorter version of the full volume Developing Literacy in Second-Language Learners reporting the findings of the National Literacy Panel on Language-Minority Children and Youth. The Panel – a distinguished group of expert researchers in reading, language, bilingualism, research methods, and education – was appointed to identify, assess, and synthesize research on the literacy education of language-minority children and youth. In this book, chapters adapted from the original report concisely summarize what is known from empirical research about the development of literacy in language-minority children and youth, including development, environment, instruction, and assessment.
