Research Catalog

Title

Reading in a second language : hypotheses, organization, and practice / Ronald Mackay, Bruce Barkman, and R.R. Jordan.

Author

Mackay, Ronald.

Publication

Rowley, Mass. : Newbury House Publishers, ©1979.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Barkman, Bruce
• Jordan, R. R.

Description

x, 208 pages; 28 cm

Subject

• English language > Study and teaching > Foreign speakers
• Second language acquisition
• Reading
• Langue seconde > Acquisition
• Bilinguisme
• Langage et langues > Étude et enseignement

Note

• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. 199-206.

Contents

A psycholinguistic model of the ESL reader / James Coady -- Reading comprehension : a psychological viewpoint / Colin Harrison and Terry Dolan -- Readinmg and the audio-lingual method / Muriel Saville-Troike -- Control of contextualized function and content words as it affects English as a foreign language reading comprehension test scores / Donald Sim and Marsha Bensoussan -- Toward a realization of psycholinguistic principles in the ESL reading class / Mark A. Clarke and Sandra Silberstein -- A model program for teaching advanced reading to students of English as a foreign language / David E. Eskey -- Teaching the information-gathering skills / Ronald Mackay -- Reading in the foreign language teaching program / Sheila Been -- Reading for information / Ronald Mackay and Alan Mountford -- Teaching intensive reading skills / John Munby -- Teaching the use of formal redundancy in reading for ideas / Mary Eleanor Pierce -- Analytic syntax : a technique for advanced level reading / Ruth Berman -- Advanced reading : teaching patterns of writing in the social sciences / Salwa Ibrahim.

ISBN

• 0883771349
• 9780883771341

LCCN

79000387

OCLC

• ocm04638111
• 4638111
• SCSB-636421

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library