The Idea and Practice of Reading

1. The Idea, Practice and Power of Reading R. Joseph Ponniah Sathyaraj Venkatesan.- 2. Twenty-First Century Second Language Literacy Development at in Universities Hazel Chiu.- 3 Extensive Reading and Vocabulary Acquisition Nina Dakslovsky.- 4 Acquisition of Writing by reading and its impact on Cognition Mary Jennifer and R. Joseph Ponniah.- 5 Blending Cognitive and Socio-constructive Pedagogies: Building Autonomous Readers in the ESL classroom Kshema Jose.- 6 Using L1 Reading Strategies to Develop L2 Reading Mahananda Pathak.- 7 First Language Reading promotes Second Language Reading and Acquisition: Towards a Biological Approach R. Joseph Ponniah.- 8 Genetics of Reading ability and its Role in Solving Reading Difficulties Radhakrishnan Sriganesh, Rahul D R and R. Joseph Ponniah.- 9 Reading Comprehension in ESL Contexts: An Applied Cognitive Semantics Perspective N P Sudharshana.- 10 The Art and Science of Reading C.E. Veni Madhavan and C.N. Ajit.- 11 Cognitive Load Theory, Redundancy Effect and Language Learning Carlos Machado and Pedro Luchini.

R. Joseph Ponniah is an Associate Professor of English in the Department of Humanities at National Institute of Technology, Trichirappalli, India. He received his PhD in English from Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai. He is currently working on English Language Teaching, and Second Language Acquisition. His papers have been widely published in peer-reviewed international journals, such as The International Journal of Foreign Language Teaching, The Atlantic Literary Review and The Modern Journal of Applied linguistics. He is a member of the editorial advisory board of the Iranian Journal of Language Studies.
Sathyaraj Venkatesan is an Assistant Professor of English in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli. He received his PhD from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur. He was a Fellow at the School of Criticism and Theory at Cornell University, New York and is currently an International Field Bibliographer with the Publications of Modern Language Association of America (PMLA). He is the author of Edgar Allan Poe: Tales and Other Writings (2016, Orient BlackSwan), AIDS in Cultural Bodies: Scripting the Absent Subject (1980-2010) (2016, Cambridge Scholars Publishing) (with Gokulnath Ammanathil) and Mapping the Margins: A Study of Ethnic Feminist Consciousness in Toni Morrison's Novels (2011). His articles have appeared in journals such as The Explicator (Routledge/Taylor and Francis Group), International Fiction Review, MELUS (Oxford Journals), Journal of Language, Literature and Culture, AMULA, American Notes and Queries and also in a number of other renowned publications.