Understanding advanced second-language reading

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-register second-language texts (both expository and narrative) that adult second-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. This book: 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 compensatory processing, emphasizes the multi-dimensionality and dynamic nature of L2 reading development, focuses on comprehension of upper-register literary texts, balances theory and instructional practices.