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Reading in a Second Language

2022
Understanding reading abilities and their development is fundamental for language comprehension and human cognition. Now in its second edition, this book draws on research from multiple disciplines to explain reading abilities in both L1 and L2, and shows how this research can be applied in practice in order to support reading development.
William Grabe, Junko Yamashita
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Second Language Reading Acquisition

2015
Literacy is a lifelong, context-bound set of practices that can vary with time, place, and an individual's needs. One can thus speak of multiple literacies and the importance of language policies that foster cultural diversity. Research has also shown the functional literacy practices via which individuals are socialized into various institutions to ...
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Reading in a Second Language

2005
For second language learners, readingmay be both ameans to the end of acquiring the language, as a major source of comprehensible input, and an end in itself, as the skill thatmany serious learnersmost need to employ.Many students of English as aForeign Language (EFL), for example, rarely speak the language in their day-to-day lives but mayneed to read
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Second Language Reading: Reading Ability or Language Proficiency?

Applied Linguistics, 1991
Sur un echantillon compose d'etudiants de 3 eme , 1 ere , 3 eme annee du superieur, l'A. etudie l'incidence des competences en langue maternelle sur la comprehension ecrite de sujets d'origine anglaise etudiant l'espagnol et de sujets d'origine hispanique etudiant l ...
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Second language reading in Persian

2020
In this chapter we align with the view that second language (L2) reading is at its core a linguistic process and that the reading challenges of literate college-level novice readers of Persian as a second language have more to do with language ability rather than general reading abilities.
Nahal Akbari, Ali Reza Abasi
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Reading in a Second Language

2008
This volume, through a detailed treatment of the cognitive processes that support reading, explains how reading really works. It offers a thorough overview of important and current research, including first language research, which is not often found in second language acquisition (SLA) publications.
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Reading in a Second Language: A Reading Problem or a Language Problem?

Journal of College Reading and Learning, 2003
This article addresses an on-going debate about whether reading in a second language is different than reading in one's first language. The focus here centers on a student population of adult L2 readers who are literate in the native language (L1).
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Research on Reading a Second Language

Journal of Reading Behavior, 1974
The experimental research on reading a second language concerns three questions: 1) Should initial reading be taught in the child's first language or in the second language when the second is the language of instruction? 2) What, other than “inadequate grasp of the language,” accounts for slower reading speed and lowered comprehension when reading a ...
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THE ROLE OF THE FIRST LANGUAGE IN SECOND LANGUAGE READING

Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2001
Reading in a second language (L2) is not a monolingual event; L2 readers have access to their first language (L1) as they read, and many use it as a strategy to help comprehend an L2 text. Owing to difficulties in observing the comprehension process, little research has been conducted to determine what role the L1 plays in the reading strategies of L2 ...
Thomas A. Upton, Li-Chun Lee-Thompson
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Doomed to Read in a Second Language: Implications for Learning

Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2009
The aim of the study was to elucidate whether and how reliance on a second language impacts the learning of new information under very basic learning conditions. The paradigm used to investigate this issue required individuals to learn a series of associations between numerals and particular letter strings.
Paul, Miller, Ora, Peleg
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