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Understanding Advanced

Second-Language Reading

“Bernhardt does an exceptional job of taking the discussion of second language reading

to languages in addition to English. The fact that the book is based on the compen-

satory theory of second language reading allows researchers, teacher educators, and

teachers to understand how second language reading is based on a theory and how that

theory can be actualized in the classroom.”

Neil J. Anderson , Brigham Young University

“Fills the gap in the current, ESL-dominant, literature.”

Keiko Koda , Carnegie Mellon University

What distinguishes this book is its broad, yet thorough, view of theory, process, and

research on adult second-language reading. Offering extensive discussions of upper-

language readers encounter daily across the globe, it also presents an assessment schema

for second-language text comprehension as well as for the assessment of teaching.

Understanding Advanced Second-Language Reading :

includes languages other than English in the discussion of second-language reading

is firmly anchored in a theory of second-language reading—the concept of compen-

satory processing

emphasizes the multi-dimensionality and dynamic nature of L2 reading development

focuses on comprehension of upper-register texts

balances theory and instructional practices.

Filling the need for a coherent, theoretically consistent, and research-based portrait of how

literate adolescents and adults comprehend, and learn to comprehend, at greater levels of

sophistication and whether that ability can be enhanced by instruction, this is a must-have

resource for reading and second-language researchers, students, and teachers.

Elizabeth B. Bernhardt is Professor of German Studies; John Roberts Hale Director of

the Language Center; and The W. Warren Shelden University Fellow in Undergraduate

Education at Stanford University.

Understanding Advanced

Second-Language

Reading

Elizabeth B. Bernhardt

Stanford University

First published 2011

by Routledge

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Simultaneously published in the UK

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This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2010.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Bernhardt, Elizabeth Buchter.

Understanding advanced second-language reading / Elizabeth B. Bernhardt.

p. cm.

1. English language—Study and teaching—Foreign speakers—Evaluation.

2. Reading (Higher education)—Ability testing.

3. Second language acquisition—Research—Methodology. I. Title.

PE1128.A2B4577 2010

418.0071—dc22

2010004771

ISBN 0-203-85240-0 Master e-book ISBN

ISBN 13: 978–0–415–87909–5 (hbk)

ISBN 13: 978–0–415–87910–1 (pbk)

ISBN 13: 978–0–203–85240–8 (ebk)

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