Reading in a Second Language

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Reading in a Second Language offers a comprehensive survey of the phenomenon and process of reading in a second language, graduate towards graduate and upper-level undergraduate students in second language acquisition, psycholinguistics, and applied psychology courses. The book explores reading processes from a number of complementary standpoints, integrating perspectives, and cognitive neuroscience. The first half examines major factors in second language reading: types of scripts, the cognitive and neural substrates of reading, metalinguistic awareness, word recognition, language transfer, and lexical knowledge. The second part of the book discusses the social and educational contexts in which reading development occurs, including issues related to pedagogy, the use of technology in the classroom, reading disorders, and policy making. Reading in a Second Language provides students with a full, logically organized overview of the primary factors that shape reading development and processes in a second language.