Understanding Advanced Second-Language Reading

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nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - 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.Understanding Advanced Second-Language Reading:includes languages other than English in the discussion of second language readingis firmly anchored in a theory of second language reading ¿ the concept of compensatory processingemphasizes the multi-dimensionality and dynamic nature of L2 reading developmentfocuses on comprehension of upper-register literary textsbalances theory and instructional practices.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. N° de ref. del artículo 9780415879101

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Elizabeth B. Bernhardt is Professor, German Studies; John Roberts Hale Director of the Language Center; and The W. Warren Shelden University Fellow in Undergraduate Education at Stanford University, US.