Teaching English Reading in the Chinese-Speaking World

Clay H. Williams is an associate professor in the graduate-level English Language Teaching Practices department of Akita International University (in northern Japan), where he teaches courses on linguistics, applied linguistics, psycholinguistics, and research methods. His primary research interests include cross-script effects on L2 literacy development with special emphasis on Chinese-English and Japanese-English literacy learning skills, lexical access in non-alphabetic script reading, and adapting L2 teaching methodologies to East Asian classroom contexts. He received a Ph.D. in Second Language Acquisition and Teaching (SLAT) from the University of Arizona. Over the course of his career, he has taught a wide range of students, from two-year-olds to seventy-year-olds, and practically everything in between, in five countries and three continents.

• Chapter 1 Introductions to Literacy.- Chapter 2 The Chinese Language.- Chapter 3 Chinese Elementary Education.- Chapter 4 English Education in the Chinese Classroom.- Chapter 5 Chinese on the Brain.- Chapter 6 Default Reading Strategies: English and Chinese.- Chapter 7 Reading against the stream: Using the wrong strategies to acquire L2 literacy.- Chapter 8 A better way: Teaching English from the ground up.