The collected essays in this volume present an overview and
state-of-the-field of traditional and recently developed methodological
approaches to the study of bilingual reading comprehension. It
critically reviews and examines major findings from classical behavioral
approaches such as the visual moving window, rapid-serial visual
presentation (RSVP), and eye-tracking, as well as newly developing
neuropsycholinguistic methodologies such as Event-Related Potentials
(ERPS), and Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI). Written to
address a timely topic, Methods in Bilingual Reading Comprehension
Research updates the field of bilingual reading by critically examining
the contributions of the various behavioral and technologically-based
reading techniques used to understand psychological processes underlying
written language comprehension. Each topic is covered first from a
theoretical, and then from an experimental, viewpoint. Moreover, the
volume contributes to the development and establishment of Bilingual
Reading as a subfield of bilingual sentence processing and fills a
significant gap in the literature on bilingual language processing and
thought. Significantly, Methods in Bilingual Reading Comprehension
Research presents an overall view of some of the typical
psycholinguistic techniques and approaches, as well as proposing other
possible tasks that may prove viable in investigating such theoretical
issues as bilingual lexical ambiguity resolution, or how bilingual
speakers might resolve multiple sources of potentially conflicting
information as they comprehend sentences and discourse during the
communicative process. In addition, to aid reader comprehension and
encourage readers to acquire "hands on" experience in the creation and
development of experiments in the realm of bilingual reading research,
each chapter includes a list of key words, suggested student research
projects, and questions to both help the reader review the chapter and
expand upon the reading. With its comprehensive coverage of a crucial
subfield of psycholinguistics and language processing, Methods in
Bilingual Reading Comprehension Research is an invaluable and
informative resource for all students and researchers in bilingualism,
neurolinguistics, bilingual cognition, and other related fields.
