Teaching second language reading / Thom Hudson. [print]

0 1. Issues in reading Second language reading Examining some of the processes Synthesis of reading requirements Some concerns about reading that motivate this text ; 2. Theories and models of first language reading processes brief overview of research on reading processes Bottom-up approaches Top-down approaches Interactive approaches New literacy approaches ; 3. Second and foreign language reading issues Views of second language reading Research into first language and second language relationships ; 4. Reading skills Reading skills in the first language Separability of skills Hierarchy of skills On skills and their hierarchical nature in the second language literature Lower-level processing in second language Higher-level skills in second language ; 5. Strategies and metacognitive skills Strategies and metacognition in first language research Basic reading comprehension strategies Metacognition and automaticity in application of reading strategies Metacognition and reading Strategies and metacognition in second language reading Second language strategy and metacognitive training Implications for instruction ; 6. Content schema and background knowledge Introduction to content and cultural schema Prior knowledge and first language reading Content schema across cultures and languages Cultural background Cultural background and text complexity Cultural background and text genre characteristics ; 7. Formal schema and second language reading Orthographic and phonemic knowledge Syntax and language structure Cohesion Text structure Narrative Expository text Text structure and second language reading Narrative text structure Expository text structure Instruction in text structure ; 8. Genre and contrastive rhetoric Genre Contrastive rhetoric Instructional approaches in genre and contrastive rhetoric ; 9. Vocabulary in second language reading What does it mean to know a word? Breadth of word knowledge Depth of word knowledge Relationships of breadth and depth Reading and first language vocabulary learning Reading and second language vocabulary learning Second language vocabulary and pedagogy Dictionary use Marginal glosses Meaning-in-context vocabulary learning strategies ; 10. Reading and writing relationships Views of reading and writing relationships first language literacy skills of reading and writing Read-to-write Write-to-read Reading and writing and knowing Second language reading and writing connections Instructional bases of reading and writing ; 11. Wrap-up of second language reading: teaching issues Issues covered Complexity of the issue First and second language theories of reading Reading skills Strategies and metacognitive skills Content schema and background knowledge in second language comprehension Formal schemata in second language reading Genre and contrastive rhetoric Vocabulary in second language reading Reading and writing relationships.

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