Table of Contents:
  • 1. Issues in reading
  • 2. Theories and models of first language reading processes
  • 3. Second and foreign language reading issues
  • 4. Reading skills
  • 5. Strategies and metacognitive skills
  • 6. Content schema and background knowledge
  • 7. Formal schema and second language reading
  • 8. Genre and contrastive rhetoric
  • 9. Vocabulary in second language reading
  • 10. Reading and writing relationships
  • 11. Wrap-up of second language reading: teaching issues