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Book SynopsisThis text presents up-to-date theory, research, and classroom applications in second language reading from an interactive perspective.
Trade Review'Well organized, clearly written and presenting a wide range of important research, Interactive Approaches to Second Language Reading is 'must' reading for specialists. It is also highly recommended for teachers, authors of instructional materials, and researchers who wish to learn about the nature of second language reading.' French Review
' … a fine synthesis of theoretical approaches to practical application and pedagogical implication of reading … It will definitely be welcomed as an inestimable addition to the present resources of teaching reading … it will undoubtedly help very much in reading research and pedagogy.' SATEFL Newsletter
Table of ContentsSeries editors' preface; Preface; Introduction: interactive approaches to second language reading Patricia L. Carrell; Part I. Interactive Models of Reading: 1. The reading process Kenneth Goodman; 2. Models of the reading process S. Jay Samuels and Michael L. Kamil; 3. A schema-theoretic view of basic processes in reading comprehension Richard C. Anderson and P. David Pearson; 4. Reassessing the term 'interactive' William Grabe; Part II. Interactive Approaches to Second Language Reading - Theory: 5. Schema theory and ESL reading pedagogy Patricia L. Carrell and Joan C. Eisterhold; 6. Holding in the bottom: an interactive approach to the language problems of second language readers David E. Eskey; 7. Some causes of text-boundedness and schema interference in ESL reading Patricia L. Carrell; 8. The short circuit hypothesis of ESL reading - or when language competence interferes with reading performance Mark A. Clarke; Part III. Interactive Approaches to Second Language Reading - Empirical Studies: 9. A case study of two readers: models of reading and reading performance Joanne Devine; 10. Changes in cohesion in the recall of native and foreign texts Margaret S. Steffensen; 11. Reading English for specialized purposes: discourse analysis and the use of student informants Andrew Cohen, Hilary Glasman, Phyllis R. Roasenbaum-Coheen, Jonathan Ferrara and Jonathan Fine; 12. This test is unfair: I'm not an economist J. Charles Alderson and A. H. Urquhart; 13. The effects of induced schemata on the 'short circuit' in L2 reading: non-decoding factors in L2 reading performance Thom Hudson; 14. The Miscue-ESL project Pat Rigg; Part IV. Implications and Applications of Interactive Approaches to Second Language Reading - Pedagogy: 15. Interactive models for second language reading: perspectives on instruction David E. Eskey and William Grabe; 16. Interactive text processing: implications for ESL/second language reading classrooms Patricia L. Carrell; 17. The relationship between general language competence and second language reading proficiency: implications for teaching Joanne Devine; Index.
