Teaching second language reading / Thom Hudson. [print]

0 Issues in reading -- Second language reading -- Examining some of the processes -- Synthesis of reading requirements -- Some concerns about reading that motivate this text -- 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 -- Second and foreign language reading issues -- Views of second language reading -- Research into first language and second language relationships -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- Genre and contrastive rhetoric -- Genre -- Contrastive rhetoric -- Instructional approaches in genre and contrastive rhetoric -- 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 -- 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 -- 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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