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.
