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Product Identifiers

PublisherRoutledge

ISBN-100805838996

ISBN-139780805838992

eBay Product ID (ePID)2222538

Product Key Features

Number of Pages216 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameEnglish L2 Reading : Getting to the Bottom

Publication Year2002

SubjectTeaching Methods & Materials / Reading & Phonics, English As a Second Language, Reading Skills, Bilingual Education, General

TypeLanguage Course

Subject AreaForeign Language Study, Language Arts & Disciplines, Education

AuthorBarbara M. Birch

SeriesEsl and Applied Linguistics Professional Ser.

FormatUk-B Format Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.5 in

Item Weight12.8 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN2001-058366

Dewey Edition23

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal428.0071

Table Of ContentContents: Preface. The Expert Decision Maker. Writing Systems. Low-Level Transfer of Reading Strategies. Listening Skills in Reading. Processing Letters. The English Spelling System. Approaches to Phonics. English Morphophonemic Writing. Vocabulary Acquisition. Getting to the Bottom of English L2 Reading. Appendices: English Graphemes. English Phonemes and Their Principal Spellings.

SynopsisThis book is a comprehensive, myth-debunking examination of how L1 features (orthographic system, phonology, morphology) can influence English L2 reading at the "bottom" of the reading process. It provides a thorough but very accessible linguistic/psycholinguistic examination of the lowest levels of the reading process. It is both theoretical and practical. Although the methodologies and approaches taken in most ESL/EFL texts about reading are top-down (cognition driven), and pay scant attention to the bottom of the reading process, those detailed in this book are language driven. The goal is to balance or supplement (not replace) top-down approaches and methodologies with effective low-level options for teaching English reading. Core linguistic and psycholinguistic concepts are presented within the context of their application to teaching. English L2 Reading: Getting to the Bottom clearly explains the strategies that readers of other languages develop in response to their own writing systems (Chinese, Japanese, Arabic, Hebrew, other alphabets, or transparent Roman alphabetic systems) contrasted with an explanation of the strategies that English readers develop in response to the opaque orthography of English, and explicates how other low-level processing strategies for L1 morphology and word formation may aid or hinder processing in English L2 reading acquisition. A complete, balanced reading ideology should be big enough to embrace all reading theories and practices. In particular, it should be able to accommodate those researchers and teachers who find that attention to the details of language can also help students learn to read better. Many ESL/EFL teachers are interested in supplementing their successful whole-language methods with bottom-up reading strategies, but aren't sure how to do it. This book fills that gap. Intended for ESL/EFL reading researchers, teacher trainers and teachers, and as a text for MATESOL students, most chapters contain practical suggestions that teachers can incorporate into whole language methods to teach beginning or intermediate ESL/EFL reading (letters, pronunciation, "smart" phonics, morphemes, and vocabulary acquisition) in a more balanced way. Pre-reading discussion and study questions are provided to stimulate interest and enhance comprehension. End-of-chapter exercises help readers apply the concepts., Presents complete, balanced approach to L2 reading theory & methodology, taking the position that what works best is supplementing whole language with bottoms-up focus. Textbook for ESL/EFL reading theory and methods courses, & relevant for practitioners

LC Classification NumberPE1128.A2B497 2002