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General & Introductory Linguistics
 Reading and Language Learning
ISBN: 978-1-4051-7574-6
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300 pages
November 2007, Wiley-Blackwell
US $47.95
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- Explores how reading and language learning are interrelated, bringing new insights to discussions on the
unique nature of reading development in a second language - Covers topics including cross-linguistic constraints on second-language reading development, bilingualism
and literacy, linguistic resources and reading strategies, incidental vocabulary acquisition through reading,
local language processing and global text comprehension, and cross-linguistic effects on word identification - Views second-language reading as a multi-faceted and multi-lingual construct
- Examines a variety of reading sub-skills, ranging from word identification to discourse comprehension.
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