Acknowledgments 3(4)
Introduction
Issues in reading
Introduction 7(5)
Second language reading 12(14)
Examining some of the processes 13(12)
Synthesis of reading requirements 25(1)
Some concerns about reading that motivate this text 26(3)
Summary and conclusions 29(2)
Discussion and study questions 30(1)
Theories and models of first language reading processes
Introduction 31(1)
A brief overview of research on reading processes 32(25)
Bottom-up approaches 34(3)
Top-down approaches 37(2)
Interactive approaches 39(16)
New literacy approaches 55(2)
Summary and conclusions 57(2)
Discussion and study questions 58(1)
Second and foreign language reading issues
Introduction 59(1)
Views of second language reading 59(6)
Research into first language and second language relationships 65(8)
Summary and conclusions 73(4)
Discussion and study questions 74(3)
Reading skills
Introduction 77(1)
Reading skills in the first language 77(13)
Separability of skills 79(5)
Hierarchy of skills 84(6)
On skills and their hierarchical nature in the second language literature 90(13)
Lower-level processing in second language 91(5)
Higher-level skills in second language 96(7)
Summary and conclusions 103(2)
Discussion and study questions 103(2)
Strategies and metacognitive skills
Introduction 105(2)
Strategies and metacognition in first language research 107(9)
Basic reading comprehension strategies 107(5)
Metacognition and automaticity in application of reading strategies 112(4)
Metacognition and reading 116(20)
Strategies and metacognition in second language reading 118(12)
Second language strategy and metacognitive training 130(6)
Implications for instruction 136(1)
Summary and conclusions 137(4)
Discussion and study questions 138(3)
Content schema and background knowledge
Introduction 141(2)
Introduction to content and cultural schema 142(1)
Prior knowledge and first language reading 143(8)
Content schema across cultures and languages 151(10)
Cultural background 151(5)
Cultural background and text complexity 156(3)
Cultural background and text genre characteristics 159(2)
Summary and conclusions 161(4)
Discussion and study questions 162(3)
Formal schema and second language reading
Introduction 165(1)
Orthographic and phonemic knowledge 165(3)
Syntax and language structure 168(5)
Cohesion 173(6)
Text structure 179(8)
Narrative 179(3)
Expository text 182(5)
Text structure and second language reading 187(5)
Narrative text structure 187(3)
Expository text structure 190(2)
Instruction in text structure 192(7)
Summary and conclusions 199(2)
Discussion and study questions 199(2)
Genre and contrastive rhetoric
Introduction 201(1)
Genre 201(12)
Contrastive rhetoric 213(8)
Instructional approaches in genre and contrastive rhetoric 221(3)
Summary and conclusions 224(1)
Discussion and study questions 225(2)
Vocabulary in second language reading
Introduction 227(2)
What does it mean to know a word? 229(20)
Breadth of word knowledge 229(4)
Depth of word knowledge 233(2)
Relationships of breadth and depth 235(1)
Reading and first language vocabulary learning 236(9)
Reading and second language vocabulary learning 245(4)
Second language vocabulary and pedagogy 249(12)
Dictionary use 249(3)
Marginal glosses 252(3)
Meaning-in-context vocabulary learning strategies 255(6)
Summary and conclusions 261(2)
Discussion and study questions 261(2)
Reading and writing relationships
Introduction 263(1)
Views of reading and writing relationships 264(4)
The first language literacy skills of reading and writing 268(11)
Read-to-write 268(6)
Write-to-read 274(3)
Reading and writing and knowing 277(2)
Second language reading and writing connections 279(4)
Instructional bases of reading and writing 283(3)
Summary and conclusions 286(1)
Discussion and study questions 287(2)
Wrap-up of second language reading: teaching issues
Issues covered 289(8)
Complexity of the issue 289(1)
First and second language theories of reading 289(2)
Reading skills 291(1)
Strategies and metacognitive skills 292(1)
Content schema and background knowledge in second language comprehension 293(1)
Formal schemata in second language reading 294(1)
Genre and contrastive rhetoric 295(1)
Vocabulary in second language reading 296(1)
Reading and writing relationships 296(1)
Summary 297