Ryan Richardson's review of Reading in a Second Language: Moving from theory to practice

A quick search of the internet for books related to teaching reading in a second language will provide an interested party with 20 or more titles published within the last 3–4 years and seemingly countless older texts. Any number of these texts will almost certainly be useful in various ways to different scholars. Despite this abundance of useful texts on the subject however, Reading in a Second Language: Moving from Theory to Practice by William Grabe is likely to become one of the more important texts in the already crowded field. In this impressive text, Grabe covers an extensive range of topics in a manner that is informative and for the most part clear, without being overly simplified. Despite a few minor issues, which are discussed below, this most recent work from Grabe has much to offer teachers, planners, researchers, and students of reading on many different levels.