Improving Reading Comprehension through Metacognitive Reading Strategies Instruction
Edited by Kouider Mokhtari
Publication date:
02 November 2016Length of book:
270 pagesPublisher
Rowman & Littlefield PublishersISBN-13: 9781475831214
This book addresses the need to help all students, including English learners, improve their ability to read with understanding so that they can succeed not just in their language and literacy classes, but also in their subject area classrooms. The book brings together a group of experts representing the fields of first and second language reading, whose chapters contribute in different yet complementary ways to the goal of this book: Improve students’ reading for understanding across languages with metacognitive awareness and use of reading strategies instruction.
This volume provides the most comprehensive resource on metacognition and reading that is currently available. The chapter authors write from a solid foundation of both academically rigorous research and informed pedagogical practice. Readers of this volume will receive a current prospective on how to build and sustain readers’ metacognitive skills that will result in improved comprehension of both print and online based textual materials. In particular, viewing the interdependency of reading and thinking skills with other language skills (listening, speaking, and writing) makes this volume a significant resource to enhance the teaching of reading and the preparation of teachers of reading.