English L2 Reading

Getting to the Bottom
3. New Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-0-415-70628-5
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 228 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 454 g

Reihe: ESL & Applied Linguistics Professional Series

English L2 Reading, Third Edition offers teachers research-based insights into bottom-up skills in reading English as a second language and a solid foundation on which to build reading instruction. Core linguistic and psycholinguistic concepts are presented within the context of their application to teaching. The goal is to balance or supplement (not replace) top-down approaches and methodologies with effective low-level options for teaching English reading.

The text’s pedagogical features— Questions, Study Guide Questions. Discussion Questions, Spotlight on Teaching sections— engage readers of the text in moving easily from linguistic details and psycholinguistic data and theory to practical explanations and suggestions for teaching. Two Appendices provide tables that list the graphemes or the phonemes of English.

Changes in the Third Edition

Shift in focus from criticism of whole language methodologies to a more neutral stance —times have changed and the study of lower-level reading strategies is now mainstream
Greater focus on linguistic form, along with function and meaning
Updated information about reading strategies at each level of the reading process
More Spotlight on Teaching sections, one for each chapter
New chapter on spelling development

Autoren/Hrsg.

Birch, Barbara M.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Mehrsprachigkeit
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Fremdsprachenerwerb und -didaktik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Alphabetisierung
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Lehrerausbildung, Unterricht & Didaktik Methoden des Lehrens und Lernens

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents
Preface1. The Expert Decision-Maker2. Writing Systems3. Low-level Transfer of Reading Strategies4. Listening Skills in Reading5. Processing Letters6. The English Spelling System7. Approaches to Phonics8. English Morphophonemic Spelling9. Spelling Development10. Vocabulary Acquisition11. Getting to the Bottom of English L2 FluencyAppendix A: English graphemesAppendix B: English Phonemes and their Principal SpellingsReferencesIndex

Über Autor(innen)

Barbara M. Birch is Professor in the Department of Linguistics at California State University - Fresno, USA.