Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Methods in Bilingual Reading Comprehension Research

  • Textbook
  • © 2016

Overview

Editors:
  1. Roberto R. Heredia

    1. Texas A&M International University, Dept. of Psychology and Communication, Laredo, USA

    View editor publications

    You can also search for this editor in PubMed   Google Scholar

  2. Jeanette Altarriba

    1. University at Albany, State University of New York, Department of Psychology, Albany, USA

    View editor publications

    You can also search for this editor in PubMed   Google Scholar

  3. Anna B. Cieślicka

    1. Texas A&M International University, Dept. of Psychology and Communication, Laredo, USA

    View editor publications

    You can also search for this editor in PubMed   Google Scholar

  • Presents a comprehensive overview of the various psycholinguistic and neurophysiological tasks used to measure bilingual language processing
  • Combines major findings from classical behavioral cognitive methodologies and newly developing neuropsycholinguistics methodologies such as fMRI
  • Includes review questions and suggested student research projects at the conclusion of each chapter to enhance student comprehension
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: The Bilingual Mind and Brain Book Series (BMBBS, volume 1)

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this book

Log in via an institution
eBook USD 39.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as EPUB and PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book USD 54.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info
Hardcover Book USD 54.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Other ways to access

Licence this eBook for your library

Institutional subscriptions

Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xviii
    Download chapter PDF

  2. Introduction to Bilingual Research Methods

    • Roberto R. Heredia, Anna B. Cieślicka, Jeanette Altarriba
    Pages 1-9

  3. Context Effects in Bilingual Sentence Processing: Task Specificity

    • Eva Van Assche, Wouter Duyck, Robert J. Hartsuiker
    Pages 11-31

  4. Walking Bilinguals Across Language Boundaries: On-line and Off-line Techniques

    • Eva M. Fernández, Ricardo Augusto Souza
    Pages 33-60

  5. Rapid Serial Visual Presentation: Bilingual Lexical and Attentional Processing

    • Jennifer M. Martin, Jeanette Altarriba
    Pages 61-98

  6. Bilingual Reading: The Visual Moving Window

    • Roberto R. Heredia, Belem G. López, Omar García, Wualú A. Altamira, Patricia G. González
    Pages 99-121

  7. Priming and Online Multiple Language Activation

    • Anna B. Cieślicka, Roberto R. Heredia
    Pages 123-156

  8. Reading Integration in Bilingual Speakers

    • Gary E. Raney, Joanna C. Bovee
    Pages 157-181

  9. Eye Movement Methods to Investigate Bilingual Reading

    • Veronica Whitford, Irina Pivneva, Debra Titone
    Pages 183-211

  10. Connectionist Models of Bilingual Word Reading

    • Daniel Holman, Michael J. Spivey
    Pages 213-229

  11. Second Language Sentence Processing: Psycholinguistic and Neurobiological Research Paradigms

    • Dieter Hillert, Yoko Nakano
    Pages 231-263

  12. The Electrophysiology of the Bilingual Brain

    • Jon Andoni Duñabeitia, Maria Dimitropoulou, Margaret Gillon Dowens, Nicola Molinaro, Clara Martin
    Pages 265-312

  13. MRI Methods in Bilingual Reading Comprehension

    • Angélique M. Blackburn
    Pages 313-352

  14. Back Matter

    Pages 353-383
    Download chapter PDF
Back to top

Keywords

About this book

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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Texas A&M International University, Dept. of Psychology and Communication, Laredo, USA

    Roberto R. Heredia, Anna B. Cieślicka

  • University at Albany, State University of New York, Department of Psychology, Albany, USA

    Jeanette Altarriba

About the editors

Roberto R. Heredia is a professor of psychology at Texas A&M International University (TAMIU); his research interests include Lexical access, bilingual lexical processes, lexical ambiguity, figurative language processes, sentence processing, second-language acquisition, word recognition, memory and information processing. He is a former Chair of the Behavioral Sciences department at TAMIU. He is a Series Coeditor for The Bilingual Mind and Brain Book Series, published by Springer.

Jeanette Altarriba is a professor of psychology at State University of New York, (SUNY) Albany as well as the Director of the Cognition and Language Laboratory at SUNY-Albany. Her research interests include psychology of language, psycholinguistics, second language acquisition, bilingualism, knowledge representation, eye movements and reading, concept and category formation and cognition and emotion.

Anna B. Cieślicka is an assistant professor of psychology at Texas A&M International University (TAMIU); her research focuses on the psycholinguistics of second language acquisition. She is a Series Coeditor for The Bilingual Mind and Brain Book Series, published by Springer.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Methods in Bilingual Reading Comprehension Research

  • Editors: Roberto R. Heredia, Jeanette Altarriba, Anna B. Cieślicka

  • Series Title: The Bilingual Mind and Brain Book Series

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-2993-1

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2016

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4939-2992-4Published: 17 October 2015

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4939-4992-2Published: 23 August 2016

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4939-2993-1Published: 17 October 2015

  • Series ISSN: 2945-5952

  • Series E-ISSN: 2945-5960

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVIII, 383

  • Number of Illustrations: 16 b/w illustrations, 24 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Cognitive Psychology, Psycholinguistics

Publish with us

Policies and ethics

Back to top

Search

Navigation