Putting PIRLS to Use in Classrooms Across the Globe: Evidence-Based Contributions for Teaching Reading Comprehension in a Multilingual Context by Marian Bruggink, Nicole Swart, Annelies van der Lee, and Eliane Segers

Aim of the BookReading comprehension is an important skill for language learners.It is a cognitive and constructive process that contributes to the understanding of a situation (Woolley, 2011).To understand how reading comprehension is taught, practiced, and developed in schools, verified data is needed for researchers to undertake a credible and trustworthy analysis.To do so, the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA) was established to obtain high-quality and large-scale data from schools in many countries around the globe.These data and studies are an excellent source for researchers and practitioners to better understand how reading comprehension is evolving and how it can be improved.The book Putting PIRLS to Use in Classrooms Across the Globe: Evidence-Based Contributions for Teaching Reading Comprehension in a Multilingual Context authored by Bruggink et al. (2022) aims at taking advantage of this valuable data to better understand and develop new strategies for teaching reading comprehension.The authors intend to launch a series of volumes, and this book is the first volume dedicated to reading comprehension.