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Teaching and Researching Reading (Applied Linguistics in Action)

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This is truly an eclectic book, which offers a socially-aligned understanding of the key issues that play out in reading research. For a long time now, researching into reading, especially second language reading, has been viewed as a psycholinguistic objectivity of inputs and outputs. Consequently, research agendas have neither factored readers' agency or voice into their methodologies and conceptualizations. In light of this, the book offers a healthy alternative by alerting to the asocial and acontextual aspects that characterize our understanding of L2 reading and how to neutralize it with a more socially-empowering and enriching understanding of issues in reading research. A "must-read book" for all those engaged in reading research.

This book is great to see research into this subject, and a great example of how to write a book on you rresearch, but it's not an easy read, and difficult to understand, if you don't do research.