Reading and Language Learning

Reading and language learning are interdependent.

While reading necessitates linguistic knowledge, reading ability enhances linguistic knowledge expansion. This volume explores the reciprocal relationship between reading and language learning.

• Explores how reading and language learning are interrelated, bringing new insights to discussions on the unique nature of reading development in a second language
• Covers topics including cross-linguistic constraints on second-language reading development, bilingualism and literacy, linguistic resources and reading strategies, incidental vocabulary acquisition through reading, local language processing and global text comprehension, and cross-linguistic effects on word identification
• Views second-language reading as a multi-faceted and multi-lingual construct
• Examines a variety of reading sub-skills, ranging from word identification to discourse comprehension.

Keiko Koda is Professor of Second Language Acquisition and Japanese at Carnegie Mellon University. Her research interests include second-language reading, biliteracy development, and psycholinguistics. She is currently a member of the editorial boards of Reading and Writing, Reading Research Quarterly, Modern Language Journal, Research in Second Language Learning, and the International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching. She is the author of Insights into Second Language Reading (2005) and a co-editor of Learning to Read across Languages (forthcoming).