Part one Introductory

Chapter 1 What is reading?

Chapter 2 Text and discourse

Chapter 3 Approaching reading in the foreign language classroom

Part Two Reading skills and strategies

Introduction

Chapter 4 Efficient reading

Chapter 5 Word attack skills

Chapter 6 Reading for plain sense

Chapter 7 Understanding discourse

Part Three Planning and teaching

Introduction

Chapter 8 An extensive reading programme

Chapter 9 Planning reading lessons

Chapter 10 Selecting texts

Chapter 11 Questioning

Chapter 12 Other kinds of reading task

Chapter 13 The testing of reading by J.Charles Alderson

Chapter 14 The teacher as reader

Appendix A:Texts

Appendix B:Extracts from reading courses

Appendix C:Lesson plans

Appendix D:Useful addresses

Key to the activities

Select bibliography

Subject index