Literacy and the Second Language Learner

JoAnn Hammadou Sullivan

• Publisher: Information Age Publishing
• Year: 2001
• Print ISBN: 9781930608863, 9781930608870
• eBook ISBN: 9781607525387
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Education Theory & Practice

The field of second language learning research has grown rapidly in recent years. Educators have become increasingly aware that pedagogical knowledge varies significantly from one subject domain to the next and that findings from educational research in one domain are not necessarily applicable to the next. Researchers in second language learning are adding to our understandings of secondlanguage specific pedagogy. There exists a need, therefore, for an outlet for these ever improving understandings of this content-specific pedagogy. The new book series, Research in Second Language Learning, will provide just such an outlet. The series invites articles from all methodological approaches to research. The series will promote a research-based approach to the decision-making process in second language teaching/learning.

Table of contents

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• Literacy and theSecond LanguageLearner
• Literacy and theSecond Language Learner
• Copyright
• CONTENTS
• LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS
• INTRODUCTION: THE SECOND LANGUAGE EDUCATORS’CHALLENGE: LEARNING ABOUT LITERACY
• 1: THEORETICAL DEVELOPMENTS IN READING CHINESE AND JAPANESE AS FOREIGN LANGUAGES
• 2: TECHNOLOGICAL LITERACY AND FOREIGN LANGUAGE LITERACY IN A TECHNOLOGICAL ERA: CONSIDERATIONS OF TWO INTERACTING CONSTRUCTS FOR FOREIGN LANGUAGE EDUCATION
• 3: WHAT SHOULD TEACHERS KNOW ABOUT BILINGUAL LEARNERS AND THE READING PROCESS?
• 4: TEACHING FOREIGN (SECOND) LANGUAGES TO AT-RISK LEARNERS: RESEARCH AND PRACTICE
• 5: SPANISH LANGUAGE TEACHERS’ BELIEFS AND PRACTICES ABOUT READING IN A SECOND LANGUAGE
• 6: THE FORM-MEANING INTERFACE: A STUDY OF JAPANESE AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE WRITING
• 7: ELECTRONIC MESSAGEBOARDS IN THE FOREIGN LANGUAGE CLASSROOM: LINKING LEARNERS AND LITERACY
• 8: THE EFFECTS OF PASSAGE CONTENT ON SECOND LANGUAGE READING COMPREHENSION BY GENDER ACROSS INSTRUCTION LEVELS
• 9: READING BETWEEN THE LINES: DETECTING, DECODING, AND UNDERSTANDING IDIOMS IN SECOND LANGUAGES
• 10: ADVANCED FOREIGN LANGUAGE READERS’ INFERENCING
• 11: WHEN PHONOLOGICAL LIMITATIONS COMPROMISE LITERACY: A CONNECTIONIST APPROACH TOENHANCING THE PHONOLOGICAL COMPETENCE OF HERITAGE LANGUAGE SPEAKERS OF SPANISH
• 12: LITERACY IN DIGITAL ENVIRONMENTS: CONNECTING COMMUNITIES OF LANGUAGE LEARNERS