Acts of Reading: Exploring Connections in Pedagogy of Japanese 9780824861377
Students who have completed a year of German read Brecht in their second year, those of Spanish read Cervantes. Teachers
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English Pages 340 Year 2002
Table of contents :
Contents
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part 1: Reading as a Cultural Act
Chapter 1. Learning to Read as a Native Speaker
Chapter 2 . Reading as a Social Activity
Chapter 3. Taking It from the Top: The Growth and Care of Genres
Part 2: Theoretical Orientation
Chapter 4. The Foreign Language Learner
Chapter 5. Toward a Theoretical Understanding of Reading
Chapter 6. The View from Cognitive Neuroscience
Part 3: Implementation
Chapter 7. Designing a Reading Program
Chapter 8. Implementation of Reading in the Classroom
Chapter 9. Evaluation in Reading
Chapter 10. Selection and Development of Learning Materials
Chapter 11. Adopting High Technology in Developing Teaching Materials
Notes
References
Contributors
Indexes
