English L2 Reading
Getting to the Bottom
Barbara M. Birch, Sean Fulop
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English L2 Reading
Getting to the Bottom
Barbara M. Birch, Sean Fulop
Información del libro
English L2 Reading: Getting to the Bottom uses research-based insights to examine bottom-up skills in reading English as a second language. This fourth edition clearly presents core concepts alongside their practical applications to teaching contexts, with updated research findings, a new focus on metalinguistic awareness, and new resources for students.
The text's pedagogical features help readers connect linguistic details and psycholinguistic theory with practical explanations and teaching suggestions. Pre-reading Questions challenge readers to analyze their own experiences. Study Guide Questions allow readers to review, discuss, and assess their knowledge. Discussion Questions elaborate on themes in each chapter, while the new Language Awareness Activities help develop metalinguistic awareness. Three Appendices provide tables that list the graphemes and the phonemes of English, as well as a brand-new dictionary pronunciation guide.
New to the fourth edition:
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- Substantially revised and updated research on linguistics
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- New, evidence-based models on the reading process
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- Language Awareness Activities that highlight metalinguistic awareness
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- Word study examples in each chapter
For teachers, teacher trainers, reading researchers, or anyone interested in teaching reading, this popular, comprehensive, myth-debunking text provides clear and practical guidance towards effectively supplementing top-down teaching approaches with bottom-up reading strategies.
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The Beginning Reader
Prereading Questions. Before you read, think about and discuss the following:
- How do people read? What are you aware of while you are reading?
- Do you remember learning to read as a child? Was it a positive or negative experience?
- Do you enjoy reading now? Why or why not?
- What do you have to read? What do you like to read? How are these reading experiences different for you?
- If you are a non-native speaker of English, do you like to read English as well as your native language? Why or why not?
- What problem(s) do you have with reading? What is the cause of the problem(s)?
Study Guide Questions: Answer these questions while or after reading the chapter. Try to put your answers into your own words.
- How is learning to speak and understand oral language different from learning to read and write?
- What is implicit language awareness? What is explicit language awareness? What is the relationship between these types of language awareness and learning to read?
- What types of memory offer the foundation for reading? How do they differ from each other?
- What is the difference between cognitive strategies and linguistic strategies? Why are the terms “top” and “bottom” used?
- What is priming?
- What is whole language instruction? What is the phonics approach? Why does this text advocate a balanced approach?
- How do the three models of the reading system relate to each other? How are they different from each other? Why are the terms strategic system, networked system, and convergent system used?
- In specific terms, what is Linguistic Infrastructure? What are the strategies needed in working memory? What unanswered questions does this model leave?
- In more specific terms, what are neural networks? How does usage and exposure to written language create cognitive architecture? What are the layers in a neural network? What are the unanswered questions?
- In more specific terms, what are codes? Why are they at the convergence of Linguistic Infrastructure and neural networks? What is the difference between the pre-literate code and the (post-literate) basic code? What are other types of codes?
- What is metalinguistic awareness, and how does it relate to implicit or explicit language awareness?
- Describe each of Chall’s reading stages.
- What is the psycholinguistic grain-size hypothesis? What does it imply about learning codes?
- Review the issues that are important in English L2 reading development.
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