Research in reading english as a second language

Sysrem,

Pergamon

Vol. 20, No. 2, pp. 235-251, 1992 Press Ltd. Printed in Great Britain

REVIEWS

Scholars who would like to publish in this section of System are requested to contact the Review Editor before submitting a paper. As a rule, all contributions should be made in English. French and German will, however, be considered. The Review Editor may be contacted at the following address: Sprachenzentrum Postfach 101251 D-8580 Bayreuth Federal Republic

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Bayreuth

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CARRELL,

PATRICIA,

DEVINE,

and ESKEY, DAVID (eds), Interactive Cambridge University Press, 1988, $12.95. (The Cambridge Applied Linguistics

JOANNE

Approaches to Second Language Reading. Cambridge: 289 pp., Series.)

hardback

DEVINE,

JOANNE,

$32.50,

paperback

CARRELL,

PATRICIA

and ESKEY, DAVID E. (eds), Research Teachers of English to Speakers

in Reading English as a Second Language. Washington: of Other

Languages,

1987, 192 pp.

BARNETT, MARVA A., More Than Meets the Eye. Foreign Language Reading. Theory and Practice. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice Hall Regents, 1989, 233~~. $18.67. (Language in Education: Theory and Practice, CAL/ERIC.) GERHOLD, SYBILLE, Lesen im Fremdsprachenunterricht. Psycholinguistische und didaktische Uberlegungen zu Funktionen einer vernachlassigten Fertigkeit im Franzosischunterricht. Bochum: Universitatsverlag Dr. N. Brockmeyer, 1990, 167 pp. (Manuskripte zur Sprachlehrforschung, Band 30.) Whereas in language for special purposes reading comprehension focus of attention, in FLT (in general) reading comprehension

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