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Insights into Second Language Reading

A Cross-Linguistic Approach

Keiko Koda author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:10th Jan '05

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This critical volume, provides an in-depth analysis of second language reading's multiple dimensions. The paperback edition describes the complexity of reading and explains how reading differs in a first and second language. The book is broad in scope, covering all major aspects of the reading process and synthesizing all current reading research. The author provides a cross-linguistic orientation, explaining how first and second languages can mutually facilitate one another. This important volume offers strategies for enhancing literary acquisition, second-language learning and bilingual processing, and will serve as a valuable guide for graduate students, professors, researchers and foreign language teachers.

ISBN: 9780521545136

Dimensions: 228mm x 151mm x 23mm

Weight: 462g

344 pages