Literacy and the second language learner

• Other Authors: Sullivan, JoAnn Hammadou (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Bingley, U.K : Emerald Publishing Limited : Information Age, 2002.
• Series: Research in second language learning ; v. 1.
• Subjects: Language and languages > Study and teaching.; Literacy.; Education > Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects.; Philosophy and theory of education.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9781918117714
• DOI: 10.1108/978-1-60752-538-7
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xii, 279 pages) : illustrations

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 t...

Table of Contents:

• The second language educators' challenge: Learning about literacy / JoAnn Hammond-Sullivan
• Chapter 1. Theoretical developments in reading Chinese and Japanese as foreign languages / Michael E. Everson
• Chapter 2. Technological literacy and foreign language literacy in a technological era: Considerations of two interacting constructs for foreign language education / Michael Frost
• Chapter 3. What should teachers know about bilingual learners and the reading process? / Andrew D. Cohen and Rosalind Horowitz
• Chapter 4. Teaching foreign (second) languages to at-risk learners: Research and practice / Richard L. Sparks, Elke Schneider, and Leonore Ganschow
• Chapter 5. Spanish teachers' beliefs and practices about reading in a second language / Terri Ann Gehl and Leslie L. Schrier
• Chapter 6. The form-meaning interface: A study of Japanese as a foreign-language writing / Sufumi So
• Chapter 7. Electronic message boards in the foreign language classroom: Linking learners and literacy / Rebecca L. Chism
• Chapter 8. The effects of passage content in second language reading by gender across instructional levels / Cindy Brantmeier
• Chapter 9. Reading between the lines: Detecting, decoding, and understanding idioms in second languages / John I. Liontas
• Chapter 10. Advanced second language readers' inferencing / JoAnn Hammond-Sullivan
• Chapter 11. When phonological limitations compromise literacy: A connectionist approach to enhancing the phonological competence of heritage language speakers of Spanish / Maria M. Carreira
• Chapter 12. Literacy in digital environments: Connecting communities of language learners / Mary Ann Lyman-Hager, Ann Johns, Honorine Nacon, and James N. Davis.