This collection of essays, most followed by comments, reflect some aspect of the general theme: reading is a multifacted, complex, interactive process that involves many subskills and many types of reader, as well as text, variables. Papers include: "The Eclectic Synergy of Methods of Reading Research" (Ulla Connor); "A View of Written Text as Communicative Interaction: Implications for Reading in a Second Language" (Patricia L. Carrell) (Comments, Sandra Silberstein); "The Effect of Context and Culture on Children's L2 Reading: A Review" (Margaret S. Steffensen) (Comments, Liz Hamp-Lyons); "Reading in a Second Culture" (Kate J. Parry) (Comments, Mary Lee Field); "General Language Competence and Adult Second Language Reading" (Joanne Devine) (Comments, David E. Eskey); "Does Syntactic Rewriting Affect English for Science and Technology Text Comprehension?" (Judith B. Strother, Jan M. Ulijn) (Comments, James Coady); "High-Level Reading in the First and in the Foreign Language: Some Comparative Process Data" (Gissi Sarig) (Comments, Fraida Dubin); "Cognitive Strategy Transfer in Second Language Reading" (Keiko Koda) (Comments, William Grabe); "The Relationship Between Nonverbal Schematic Concept Formation and Story Comprehension" (Kyle Perkins) (Comments, Andrew D. Cohen); and "ESL Reading Pedagogy: Implications of Schema-Theoretical Research" (Mark O. James) (Comments, David Eskey). (MSE)