Publications

Publication details [#50127]

Walter, Catherine. 2007. First- to second-language reading comprehension: not transfer, but access. International Journal of Applied Linguistics 17 (1) : 14–37.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

accessibility | metaphor | reading comprehension | reading, L1-acquisition of | reading, L2-acquisition of

Place, Publisher

Wiley-Blackwell

Journal WWW

www.ingenta.com/journals/browse/bpl/ijal

Annotation

This study uses Gernsbacher's Structure Building Framework to demonstrate that in second-language reading comprehension one accesses first language reading comprehension skills, thus challenging the transfer metaphor.