Describes how classroom intervention, through developing process awareness of reading, helped change students' model of reading with a socially constructed one. Shows the impact the changes in students' reading models had on their literacy experiences in other courses of their degree. (Author/VWL)

Reviews recent research evidence for universal and orthography- or language-specific processes in the development of basic reading skills in school-age children. The review focuses on three different aspects of reading--phonological processing, rapid naming, and morphosyntactic complexity--targeted in recent research on development of word…

Examines one aspect of the second language reading process: the nature of the concepts of "difficulty" and "ease" within a schema-theoretic perspective. Addresses this topic through L2 reading at the university or adult level. Proposes a number of hypotheses suggested by both the empirical and pedagogical literature that will…

Examined the nature of Turkish students' motivation to read. Objectives were to explore the mean level of Turkish students' reading motivation; to identify students' reading frequencies; and to understand the relation between their reading motivations and their reading frequencies. Students completed the Motivations for Reading Questionnaire and…

This study aims primarily to investigate the impact of learning multiple foreign languages on the use of metacognitive reading strategies (MRSs) by foreign language teaching (FLT) department students. A number of factors such as gender, hand preference, class, and programme with reference to their belief orientation were also involved in the…

The domain of second language reading is a rich source for insights into bilingual cognitive processing. Most cross-language transfer research has been carried out on acquisition and production of second-language (L2) structures. Relatively little work has been done on cross-language transfer in bilingual reading. An overreliance on top-down,…

In order to design an English reading course for Indonesian students, particular problems of reading English for foreigners were examined. Some problems and solutions are detailed here. (CK)

Learning to read in a foreign language has always been considered as belonging to the field of language teaching. But there is a case for viewing the learner as training in reading too. This article analyzes the reasons, drawn from research (mostly psycholinguistic) on the reading process, that lead us to consider the learner as an "apprentice…

In this analysis of prior knowledge and bilingual literacy, it is suggested that the basis upon which cognitive decisions are made and nonvisual inferences are drawn comes from the background knowledge that the reader possesses as tacit or prior knowledge. It is claimed that the only model that can account for the pluralistic nature of language is…

Describes a study that explored the relationship between performance of a schematic concept formation task (SCF) and reading performance in students of English as a second language. Above average readers had significantly higher SCF ranks than below average readers. Offers suggestions for future research with SCF tasks. (SED)

Discusses a model of the reading process drawn from ideas used in foreign language instruction and resting on the distinction between reading acquisition and reading learning. Explains how the model can be applied in the classroom. (FL)

Reinterprets the question of whether second-language reading is a language problem (linguistic threshold) or a reading problem (linguistic interdependence), using data from a study of 186 adult native English speakers reading in English and Spanish. Results indicated that neither hypothesis is wholly reflective of the second-language reading…

Adapting the use of writing stations to the Latin classroom makes the process of reading and editing an integral part of the process of language instruction and learning. Suggests that whether used in the foreign language classroom or the English classroom, the use of writing stations makes the processes of editing and rewriting less tedious and…

The place of literary criticism in the education of pre-service English language teachers in EFL contexts is rarely discussed in the related literature. Traditional view of teaching criticism involves learning of the tenets of the critical school and applying them to literary texts. In this paper, an application of teaching criticism is discussed…

The study investigated EFL students' ability to comprehend and analyze advertisements and identify their stylistic features. Results of a test with sixty six EFL college students showed lexical and structural features that are easy to identify and those that are difficult to identify. Responses also reflected the difficulty level of the lexical…