This book explores the importance of cross-linguistic similarity in foreign language learning. Similarities can be perceived in the form of simplified one-to-one relationships or merely assumed. The book outlines the different roles of L1 transfer on comprehension and on production, and on close and distant target languages

Reading Comprehension Skills and Strategies is designed to reinforce and extend the reading skills of your students. The fun, high-interest fiction and non-fiction selections will spark the interest of even your most reluctant reader. The book offers your students a variety of reading opportunities—reading for pleasure, reading to gather information, and reading to perform a task. A character on each page prompts the student to apply one of the strategies to the reading selection and includes a relevant comprehension skill activity.

Reading Comprehension Skills and Strategies is designed to reinforce and extend the reading skills of your students. The fun, high-interest fiction and non-fiction selections will spark the interest of even your most reluctant reader. The book offers your students a variety of reading opportunities—reading for pleasure, reading to gather information, and reading to perform a task. A character on each page prompts the student to apply one of the strategies to the reading selection and includes a relevant comprehension skill activity.

Just Listening and Speaking is organized with 18 units of Listening, each with two authentic or "semi-authentic" passages on the accompanying CD. There are a variety of tasks: gap fill, charts, True/False, matching, as well as comprehension questions, vocabulary work and an occasional follow-up writing task. The answer key is included.

The current study aimed to develop a model of reading comprehension for children in middle primary school.  As part of this overall aim there was a particular focus on the contribution of different types of memory to reading comprehension.  The variables selected for consideration were identified from the child and adult literature and were of three types:  word reading, language, and memory.  The sample comprised 180 primary school children in grades 3-5 recruited from two primary schools.  Their ages ranged from 8 years 7 months to 11 years 11 months.  

The reading comprehension measure was in a multiple-choice format with the text available when answering the questions.  The five word reading measures were phonological recoding, orthographic processing, text reading accuracy,  text reading speed, and a measure of exposure to print and reading experience.