Understanding Advanced Second-language Reading

Understanding Advanced Second-Language Reading “Bernhardt does an exceptional job of taking the discussion of second language reading to languages in addition to English. The fact that the book is based on the compensatory theory of second language reading allows researchers, teacher educators, and teachers to understand how second language reading is based on a theory and how that theory can be actualized in the classroom.” Neil J. Anderson, Brigham Young University “Fills the gap in the current, ESL-dominant, literature.” Keiko Koda, Carnegie Mellon University What distinguishes this book is its broad, yet thorough, view of theory, process, and research on adult second-language reading. Offering extensive discussions of upperregister second-language texts (both expository and narrative) that advanced secondlanguage readers encounter daily across the globe, it also presents an assessment schema for second-language text comprehension as well as for the assessment of teaching. Understanding Advanced Second-Language Reading: • • • • • includes languages other than English in the discussion of second-language reading is firmly anchored in a theory of second-language reading—the concept of compensatory processing emphasizes the multi-dimensionality and dynamic nature of L2 reading development focuses on comprehension of upper-register texts balances theory and instructional practices. Filling the need for a coherent, theoretically consistent, and research-based portrait of how literate adolescents and adults comprehend, and learn to comprehend, at greater levels of sophistication and whether that ability can be enhanced by instruction, this is a must-have resource for reading and second-language researchers, students, and teachers. Elizabeth B. Bernhardt is Professor of German Studies; John Roberts Hale Director of the Language Center; and The W. Warren Shelden University Fellow in Undergraduate Education at Stanford University. Understanding Advanced Second-Language Reading Elizabeth B. Bernhardt Stanford University First published 2011 by Routledge 270 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10016 Simultaneously published in the UK by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2010. To purchase your own copy of this or any of Taylor & Francis or Routledge’s collection of thousands of eBooks please go to www.eBookstore.tandf.co.uk. © 2011 Taylor and Francis All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilized in any form