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Grabe (Methodology in Language Teaching) maintains lies in the fact that research in L2 reading tends to be short-term and less pragmatic.
Renandy and Jacobs (Methodology in language Teaching) argue strongly for incluyding extensivereading in the second language curriculum.The extensive reading can improve reading ability, it can also enhance leaner's overall laguage proficiency (spelling, grammar, vocabulary and writing.)
DIlema # 1
Many different contexts for l2 reading instrucction.
It is certainly true that L2 contexts for reading instruction are more complex; they include all the contexts for L1 instruction and add the L2 learning dimension to all of the others.
Dilmea #3
Formal aspects of language and genre structre c0ntribute to readers developing comprehension and inferencing abiliities (Methodology in Language Teaching)
Dilema #5
social class diferences do appear to have an indirect effect on reading development. Typical middle-class families provide children with an estimated 1,000 hours of tutoring before the children arrive at School (Adams, 1990)
Dilema #7
Comprehension is the ability to use appropriate reading strategies and to know when to use them and in what combinations, dependiong on different reading purposes and tasks.
Dilema #9
At some point in all students' academic careers, they must learn to make the transition from learning to read to reading to learn other informationl
