Reading in a Second Language Quotes

“Beyond the first few thousand words of English, many words are expansions of more basic words through the addition of morphemes”
― Grabe, Reading in a Second Language: Moving from Theory to Practice

“We were never born to read. Human beings invented reading only a few thousand years ago. And with this invention, we rearranged the very organization of our brain, which in turn expanded the ways we were able to think, which altered the intellectual evolution of our species.”
― Grabe, Reading in a Second Language: Moving from Theory to Practice