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Reading and Language Learning

Reading and Language Learning

Paperback

Series: Best of Language Learning, Book 1

Linguistics

ISBN10: 1405175745
ISBN13: 9781405175746
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: Oct 1 2007
Pages: 232
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.47 Width: 6.12 Depth: 8.95
Language: English

Reading and language learning are interdependent.

While reading necessitates linguistic knowledge, reading ability enhances linguistic knowledge expansion. This volume explores the reciprocal relationship between reading and language learning.

  • Explores how reading and language learning are interrelated, bringing new insights to discussions on the unique nature of reading development in a second language
  • Covers topics including cross-linguistic constraints on second-language reading development, bilingualism and literacy, linguistic resources and reading strategies, incidental vocabulary acquisition through reading, local language processing and global text comprehension, and cross-linguistic effects on word identification
  • Views second-language reading as a multi-faceted and multi-lingual construct
  • Examines a variety of reading sub-skills, ranging from word identification to discourse comprehension.

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