Full Description
This book addresses basic issues in language education and explores how reading, with a focus on meaning, contributes to the development of all aspects of language including vocabulary, spelling, grammar, and syntax. It departs from traditional methods and practices in language learning to investigate the potency of reading in improving language acquisition. The traditional practice in language classes to teach language skills explicitly through acquiring forms and structures of language is often less than successful, and teachers are gradually incorporating reading materials and practices into the curriculum. This book provides important inputs to language teachers and educators on the need to include reading as an idea and as a practice into the curriculum. Among other things, it explores the benefits of incidental learning of language properties such as vocabulary, syntax and grammar and gives adequate exposure to different types of reading strategies to promote readingamong learners. It also exploits the possible transfer of L1 reading strategies and capabilities to L2 reading for language acquisition. In so doing, this book hopes to promote autonomous learning among L2 learners and guide readers in alternative strategies to solve comprehension problems.
Contents
1. The Idea, Practice and Power of Reading R. Joseph Ponniah Sathyaraj Venkatesan.- 2. Twenty-First Century Second Language Literacy Development at in Universities Hazel Chiu.- 3 Extensive Reading and Vocabulary Acquisition Nina Dakslovsky.- 4 Acquisition of Writing by reading and its impact on Cognition Mary Jennifer and R. Joseph Ponniah.- 5 Blending Cognitive and Socio-constructive Pedagogies: Building Autonomous Readers in the ESL classroom Kshema Jose.- 6 Using L1 Reading Strategies to Develop L2 Reading Mahananda Pathak.- 7 First Language Reading promotes Second Language Reading and Acquisition: Towards a Biological Approach R. Joseph Ponniah.- 8 Genetics of Reading ability and its Role in Solving Reading Difficulties Radhakrishnan Sriganesh, Rahul D R and R. Joseph Ponniah.- 9 Reading Comprehension in ESL Contexts: An Applied Cognitive Semantics Perspective N P Sudharshana.- 10 The Art and Science of Reading C.E. Veni Madhavan and C.N. Ajit.- 11 Cognitive Load Theory, Redundancy Effect and Language Learning Carlos Machado and Pedro Luchini.
