No one process defines reading comprehension by itself, but together these processes provide a fairly accurate account of the processes required for fluent reading (see Grabe, 2009; Stafura & Perfetti, …

Grabe attended the USAF Test Pilot School in 1974 and, upon graduating in 1975, was assigned to the Air Force Flight Test Center as a test pilot for the A-7 and F-111. He was the program manager and …

Grabe and Yamashita explain the role of extensive vocabulary knowledge, the integration of syntactic knowledge and processing skills, the use of strategies and discourse knowledge in developing …

William Grabe is Emeritus Regents Professor of Applied Linguistics at Northern Arizona University (NAU). He has been exploring research on reading comprehension, reading development, and …

Grabe bases each chapter on a review of research - carefully designed studies ranging from cognitive psychology and linguistics to education and then moves toward applications for teachers of second …

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Grabe, W. (2009). Reading in a Second Language: Moving from Theory to Practice. Cambridge UP. Chapter 2. “How Reading Works: the Building Blocks of Fluency and Comprehension” This chapter …