ABSTRACT
I began this book by invoking Huey’s (1908) ethic and I will end with this spirit. Huey expected all of us to participate as a community in improving reading instruction. He fundamentally believed that research was the path to bring about improvement. Reading Development in a Second Language set forth research directions in the area of research design and in curriculum and instruction. The first task of this chapter is to discuss whether the challenges for research and teaching set forth in Reading Development in a Second Language were ever met. But Huey was not one to look backward. Hence, to remain with his ethic, Understanding Advanced Second-Language Reading ends with an outline of a research program that follows many of the research directions cited in the volume and that principally emphasizes the work to be done within a compensatory framework.
