Now in its third edition, Teaching and Researching Reading charts the field of reading (first
and second language) systematically and coherently for the benefit of language teaching …

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 book is intended to give you a broad overview of Applied Linguistics. It will introduce
you to important areas in the field, and familiarize you with the key issues in each of those …

We, the authors of this book, are all active in research on the language-skill development of
English language learners; we are also committed to making this research relevant and …

This chapter describes that reading comprehension issues center on the ability to
understand complex texts, whether fictional narrative or informational. It outlines ways to …

The current study examined the effect of orthographic transparency and familiarity on brain
mechanisms involved in word recognition in adult Hebrew readers. We compared the effects …

Teachers of English as a second or foreign language often state that they lack an
understanding of how to teach vocabulary in a principled, evidence-based way sensitive to …

There is evidence that L1 and L2 lexical engagement of novel items occurs in adulthood.
However, previous studies have not addressed the effects of individual differences on that …

This study was conducted to evaluate a potential new way of assessing reading
comprehension at the college level in Afghanistan. In this study, synthesis writing is …