Editor: Viv Edwards (University of Reading, UK)
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Volume: 15 Number: 1 Page: 56–70
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Decoding as a Cultural Practice and its Effects on the Reading Process of Bilingual Pupils
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Andrey Rosowsky
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This paper explores the nature of reading for meaning as if affects the reading abilities of secondary-age pupils who are bilingual and Muslim. It discusses the competing theories which seek to account
for the reading process, and links these to a study which examines the reading strategies employed by bilingual pupils who have experienced intensive Qur'anic literacy, and seeks to account for the pre-eminence
of decoding in their reading behaviour. This leads to a discussion regarding the nature of reading itself, and, by including reference to the varied social and cultural practices of reading, proposes a
broadening of the definition of meaning in the reading act.
© Multilingual Matters 2001
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