Teaching Readers of English ─ Students, Texts, and Contexts

A comprehensive training manual for pre- and in-service ESL, EFL, and EIL educators who work with multilingual students at the secondary and post-secondary levels in schools, colleges, universities, and workplace settings, this text balances insights from current reading theory and research with highly practical, field-tested strategies for teaching and assessing second-language reading that readers can readily adopt or adapt to suit their contexts and student populations.

Teaching Readers of English: Students, Texts, and Contexts, Second Edition— a complete "go-to" source for teaching reading and promoting classroom and professional literacies in an increasingly digital world

• provides an overview of contemporary first language and second language reading theory and research situated in a multiple literacies framework;
• offers readers principled approaches to, and methods for, planning and delivering effective L2 reading instruction in a range of contexts;
• gives systematic attention to macro-level instructional processes such as needs assessment, syllabus design, and unit planning; and
• presents guidelines for selecting appropriate materials for reading and developing purposeful classroom reading lessons.

Changes in the Second Edition include a more streamlined chapter sequence to enhance the text’s usability and appeal; updated and revised chapters on formative and summative reading assessment, developing vocabulary knowledge and grammatical skill, and cultivating extensive reading and literary appreciation; updated information on institutional settings and reader demographics. Pedagogical features in each chapter include a chapter Summary, Further Reading, Reflection and Review, Application Activities, Appendices.

John S. Hedgcock is Professor of Applied Linguistics at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey, USA.

Dana R. Ferris is Professor in the University Writing Program at the University of California, Davis, USA.