Multilingual learners: Vocabulary and beyond

The simple view of reading (SVR; Gough & Tunmer, 1986) proposes that decoding and language comprehension are pivotal for reading comprehension. Vocabulary breadth is a frequently used measure of language comprehension in studies of second language (L2) and multilingual children including those carried out within the SVR framework. The general objective of this chapter is discuss complementary perspectives on vocabulary skills in second language...