Establishing principles for educational text design and classroom reading activities to promote lifelong learning for second language readers : the conceptual background to a Central Queensland University research study

Lifelong learning is facilitated when access to learning opportunities is expanded to include people of diverse demographic characteristics, cultural backgrounds, and geographic locations. This paper explains the theoretical framework for a research study exploring the effect of cross-linguistic variations on comprehension for second-language students reading expository text in the medium of English within the knowledge domain of Australian law.