AER 52 aims to expand our understanding of the nature of literacy at a time when public and
private lives have become increasingly literacy-dependent, and literacy demands more …

Background The relationship between oral language and the writing process at early
acquisition stages and the ways the former can enhance or limit the latter has not been …

Reading in a Second Language: Moving from Theory to Practice Bill Grabe Table of
Contents Preface Section I: Foundations of Reading Comprehension 1. The Nature of …

This popular, comprehensive theory-to-practice text helps teachers understand the task of
writing, L2 writers, the different pedagogical models used in current composition teaching …

A comprehensive manual for pre-and in-service ESL, EFL, and EIL educators who work with
multilingual students at the secondary and postsecondary levels, this text balances insights …

This lively collection of over 100 classroom activities allows teachers to exploit fully the
language learning potential of extensive reading. The activities, contributed by teachers who …

This book is a multidisciplinary analysis of the meaning and dynamics of multilingualism
from the perspectives of multilingual societies and language communities in the margins …

Key issues in L2 reading development Page 13 2 Abstract: Key Issues in L2 Reading
Development William Grabe Northern Arizona University william. grabe@ nau. edu …

In learning to read, what is it that one learns? Reading educators have stressed the goal of
learning to read in variations around meaning; eg learning to construct meaning, to get …

In this 1-year longitudinal study, we examined the central component processes of reading
fluency, spelling accuracy, reading comprehension, and narrative text writing skills of 103 …