Part one Introductory 1
Chapter 1 What is reading? 1
Chapter 2 Text and discourse 20
Chapter 3 Approaching reading in the foreign language classroom 30
Part Two Reading skills and strategies 40
Introduction 40
Chapter 4 Efficient reading 44
Chapter 5 Word attack skills 62
Chapter 6 Reading for plain sense 78
Chapter 7 Understanding discourse 100
Part Three Planning and teaching 125
Introduction 125
Chapter 8 An extensive reading programme 127
Chapter 9 Planning reading lessons 149
Chapter 10 Selecting texts 170
Chapter 11 Questioning 181
Chapter 12 Other kinds of reading task 192
Chapter 13 The testing of reading by J.Charles Alderson 212
Chapter 14 The teacher as reader 229
Appendix A:Texts 232
Appendix B:Extracts from reading courses 243
Appendix C:Lesson plans 253
Appendix D:Useful addresses 261
Key to the activities 262
Select bibliography 267
Subject index 275