Reading in a Foreign Language / [print]
- London, England : Longman Group Limited, (c)1984.
- 324 pages : 21 cm
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Introduction: what is reading? / Reading in a foreign language: a reading problem or a language problem / Learning from the perspective of the comprehender / Cultural knowledge and reading / Learning from text: methods of affecting reader intent / Cramming or understanding? Effects of intrinsic and extrinsic motivation on approach to learning and test performance / Linguistic competence of practised and unpractised non-native readers of English / Syntactics components of the foreign language reading process / The effect of rhetorical ordering of readability / Simple, simplified and simplification: what is authentic? / Aspects of vocabulary in the readability of content area L2 educational textbooks: a case study / Reading and Communication / Case studies of ninth grade readers / Conversational investigations of reading: the self-organized learner and the text / Exploring the reading difficulties of second-language learners in Fiji / J. Charles Alderson, A.H. Urquhart -- J. Charles Alderson -- John D. Bransford, Barry S. Stein, Tommie Shelton -- Margaret S. Steffensen, Chitra Joag-Dev -- James M. Royer, John A. Bates, Clifford E. Konold -- Anders Fransson -- Malcolm Cooper -- Ruth A. Berman -- A. H. Urquhart -- Alan Davies -- Ray Williams and Don Dallas -- H.G. Widdowson -- Carol Hosenfeld -- Sheila Harri-Augstein, Laurie F. Thomas -- Warwick B. Elley.