Reading to learn in another language

Ingrid Piller

Reading to learn in another language

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“Man is an obligate aerobe”, I recently read in a medicine book for general readers (Nuland, 1993). The phrase was noteworthy to me because it did something that rarely happens to an educated adult reader: it broke the automaticity of my reading. The phrase “obligate aerobe” was new to me and I had to look it up in the dictionary. In case you don’t know, either, an “obligate aerobe” is an organism that requires oxygen to live.

Original language	English
Specialist publication	Language on the move
Publisher	Language on the move
Publication status	Published - 11 Aug 2019

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© 2019 Language on the Move. Version archived for private and non-commercial use with the permission of the author/s and according to publisher conditions. For further rights please contact the publisher.

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200401 applied linguistics and educational linguistics
200405 language in culture and society (sociolinguistics)

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Reading to learn in another language

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