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Interacting with Authentic Texts: Multilayered Processes
Author(s) -
DEVITT SEÁN
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
the modern language journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.486
H-Index - 83
eISSN - 1540-4781
pISSN - 0026-7902
DOI - 10.1111/j.1540-4781.1997.tb05512.x
Subject(s) - reading (process) , relation (database) , computer science , linguistics , second language acquisition , philosophy , database
In most of the literature on second language (L2) acquisition, reading processes are not considered, nor is the potential of authentic texts as a source of linguistic input. On the other hand, the literature on L2 reading rarely deals with reading as driving language acquisition. This article links the two fields of L2 input/interaction research and L2 reading in a way that enables the insights from each to fertilize the other. After a discussion of the theoretical issues in both areas, the article identifies connections between the two fields and presents an approach that encourages several layers of interactive processes in reading authentic texts. The article details various steps in the approach and the different layers of interaction involved in each, as well as the relation of this type of interaction to L2 acquisition and L2 reading.