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| Volume | Issue | Authors | Title | Date | Topic |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | Baltra, Armando | Learning how to cope with reading in English for academic purposes in 26 hours | pdf | 1983 | Course Design |
| 1 | 1 | Bhatia, Vijay | International symposium on LSP: Reading for professional purposes in native and foreign languages | 1983 | Conference Report |
| 1 | 1 | Johns, Tim & Davies, Florence | Text as a vehicle for information: The classroom use of written texts in teaching reading as a foreign language | pdf | 1983 | Text Analysis |
| 1 | 1 | Salager, Francoise | The lexis of fundamental medical English: Classificatory framework and rhetorical function (a statistical approach) | pdf | 1983 | Lexis |
| 1 | 1 | Williams, Ray | Teaching the recognition of cohesive ties in reading in a foreign language | pdf | 1983 | Methods and Materials |
| 1 | 2 | Carrell, Patricia L. | Some issues in studying the role of schemata, or background knowledge, in second language comprehension | pdf | 1983 | The Reading Process |
| 1 | 2 | Edge, Julian | Reading to take notes and to summarize; a classroom procedure | pdf | 1983 | Methods and Materials |
| 1 | 2 | Hall, David | Reading comprehension course: Selected strategies | 1983 | Reviews |
| 1 | 2 | Heron, Patricia A. | Understanding Russian texts: A short course procedure using the integrated dictionary search method | pdf | 1983 | Course Design |
| 1 | 2 | Moore, C. J. | Authors' corner. EST readers: Some principles for their design and use| pdf | 1983 | Methods and Materials |
| 1 | 2 | Pugh, Tony | Third European conference on reading: How teachers learn to teach reading, (Vienna, 3-6 July 1983) | 1983 | Conference Report |
| 1 | 2 | Shettlesworth, Clarence | Base books | 1983 | Reviews |
| 1 | 2 | Skehan, Peter | Reading comprehension assessment: A cognitive basis | 1983 | Reviews |
| 1 | 2 | Smithies, Michael | Reading habits at a Third-World technological university | pdf | 1983 | Graded Readers |
| 1 | 2 | Wakely, Richard | Messages | 1983 | Reviews |
| 2 | 1 | Bramki, Doudja and Williams, Ray | Lexical familiarization in economics text and its pedagogic implications in reading comprehension | pdf | 1984 | Lexis |
| 2 | 1 | Cowie, Tony P. | Vocabulary in a second language | 1984 | Reviews |
| 2 | 1 | Kitto, Michael | Understanding telex messages | pdf | 1984 | Text Analysis |
| 2 | 1 | Nelson, Pieter | Towards a more communicative reading course: Motivating students who are not "reading addicts" | pdf | 1984 | Course Design |
| 2 | 1 | St. John, Maggie Jo | Making sense of reading | 1984 | Reviews |
| 2 | 1 | Stanley, Rose Mary | The recognition of macrostructure: A pilot study | pdf | 1984 | The Reading Process |
| 2 | 1 | Zuck, Joyce G. and Zuck, Louis V. | Scripts: An example from newspaper texts | pdf | 1984 | Text Analysis |
| 2 | 2 | Alderson, J. Charles | Reading to learn | 1984 | Reviews |
| 2 | 2 | Bamford, Julian | Extensive reading by means of graded readers | pdf | 1984 | Graded Readers |
| 2 | 2 | Bensoussan, Marsha, Sim, Donald and Weiss, Razelle | The effect of dictionary usage on EFL test performance compared with student and teacher attitudes and expectations | pdf | 1984 | Testing |
| 2 | 2 | Hamp-Lyons, Liz | Reading in the language classroom | 1984 | Reviews |
| 2 | 2 | Jolly, David | Author's Corner. Reading choices: Principles and practices in self-access reading | pdf | 1984 | Methods and Materials |
| 2 | 2 | Mohammed, Mawafak and Swales, John | Factors affecting the successful reading of technical instructions | pdf | 1984 | The Reading Process |
| 2 | 2 | Urquhart, Alexander | Understanding reading comprehension | 1984 | Reviews |
| 3 | 1 | Bloor, Meriel | Some approaches to the design of reading courses in English as a foreign language | pdf | 1985 | Course Design |
| 3 | 1 | Hamp-Lyons, Liz | Two approaches to teaching reading: A classroom-based study | pdf | 1985 | Course Design |
| 3 | 1 | Levine, Adina and Reves, Thea | What can the FL teacher teach the Mother Tongue reader? | pdf | 1985 | Methods and Materials |
| 3 | 1 | Pegolo, Catherine | The role of rhythm and intonation in the silent reading of French as a foreign language | pdf | 1985 | The Reading Process |
| 3 | 1 | Trimble | Reading for Learning in the Sciences | 1985 | Reviews |
| 3 | 1 | Yin, Koh Moy | The role of prior knowledge in reading comprehension | pdf | 1985 | The Reading Process |
| 3 | 2 | Bamford, Julian | Using readers in language teaching | 1987 | Reviews |
| 3 | 2 | Deyes, Tony | Towards a minimum discourse grammar for ESP reading courses | pdf | 1987 | Course Design |
| 3 | 2 | Jarvis, Jennifer | Meeting the reading needs of trainee primary school teachers of English | pdf | 1987 | Course Design |
| 3 | 2 | North, Sarah | Ways to reading | 1987 | Reviews |
| 3 | 2 | Parrott, Jeremy | Reading syndicates: A working model for the language classroom | pdf | 1987 | Methods and Materials |
| 3 | 2 | Skelton, John | Biological sciences/medicine/physics/telecommunications: Developing reading skills in English | 1987 | Reviews |
| 3 | 2 | Urquhart, Alexander | Comprehensions and interpretations | pdf | 1987 | Testing |
| 4 | 1 | Carrell, Patricia L. | Readability in ESL | pdf | 1987 | Text Analysis |
| 4 | 1 | Clymer, Phil | Business reading | 1987 | Reviews |
| 4 | 1 | Cooper, Mary | 11th World Congress in Reading, July 1986 | 1987 | Conference Report |
| 4 | 1 | Fox, Jeremy | Some advantages and disadvantages of developing reading skills with computers | pdf | 1987 | Methods and Materials |
| 4 | 1 | Koskinen, Leena, Mauranen, Anna, and Virkkunen, Anu | Teaching English abbreviated clauses for Finnish readers | pdf | 1987 | Methods and Materials |
| 4 | 1 | Simensen, Aud Marit | Adapted readers: How are they adapted? | pdf | 1987 | Graded Readers |
| 4 | 1 | Williams, Eddie | Classroom reading through activating content-based schemata | pdf | 1987 | Methods and Materials |
| 4 | 2 | Baker, Mona | Sub-technical vocabulary and the ESP teacher: An analysis of some rhetorical items in medical journal articles | pdf | 1988 | Lexis |
| 4 | 2 | Johns, Ann M. | Reading for summarising: An approach to text orientation and processing | pdf | 1988 | Methods and Materials |
| 4 | 2 | Randall, Mick and Meara, Paul | How Arabs read Roman letters | pdf | 1988 | The Reading Process |
| 4 | 2 | Rankin, J. Mark | Designing thinking-aloud studies in ESL reading | pdf | 1988 | Methods and Materials |
| 4 | 2 | Urquhart, Alexander | Teaching main idea comprehension | 1988 | Reviews |
| 4 | 2 | Wajnryb, Ruth | Communicative use of newspaper texts in classroom reading: The read-ask-and-tell approach | pdf | 1988 | Methods and Materials |
| 5 | 1 | Bearne, Colin | Readers and 'readers': Foreign language reading in 18+ learners. Russian as a case study and some strategies | pdf | 1988 | Graded Readers |
| 5 | 1 | Hamp-Lyons | Interactive approaches to second language reading | 1988 | Reviews |
| 5 | 1 | Jarvis, Jennifer | Class readers | 1988 | Reviews |
| 5 | 1 | Matthews, Margaret | Reading: Elementary (R. Scott: OUP), Reading Intermediate (G. Porter Ladousse: OUP) | 1988 | Reviews |
| 5 | 1 | Namukwai, Violet and Williams, Ray | The readability of government reports: A case study from Zambia | pdf | 1988 | Text Analysis |
| 5 | 1 | Peretz, Arna S. | Student-centered learning through content-based instruction: Use of oral report projects in the advanced EFL reading class | pdf | 1988 | Methods and Materials |
| 5 | 1 | Steffensen, Margaret S. | The dialogue journal: A method for improving cross-cultural reading comprehension | pdf | 1988 | Methods and Materials |
| 5 | 1 | Wodinsky, Marilyn and Nation, Paul | Learning from graded readers | pdf | 1988 | Graded Readers |
| 5 | 2 | Alderson, J. Charles and Lukmani, Yasmeen | Cognition and reading: Cognitive levels as embodies in test questions | pdf | 1989 | Testing |
| 5 | 2 | Cooper, Janelle and Fairbairn, Ingrid | Ten years of the communicative use of English examinations - reading | pdf | 1989 | Testing |
| 5 | 2 | Pitts, Michael, White, Howard, and Krashen, Stephen | Acquiring the second language vocabulary through reading: A replication of the Clockwork Orange study using second language acquirers | pdf | 1989 | Lexis |
| 5 | 2 | Robb, Thomas N. and Susser, Bernard | Extensive reading vs skills building in an EFL context | pdf | 1989 | Methods and Materials |
| 5 | 2 | Wallace, Catherine | Learning to read in a second language: A window on the language acquisition process | pdf | 1989 | The Reading Process |
| 6 | 1 | Dunmore, Don | Using contextual clues to infer word meaning: An evaluation of current exercise types | pdf | 1989 | Methods and Materials |
| 6 | 1 | Fand, Roxanne J. | Detecting bias in newspapers: Implications for teaching ESL | pdf | 1989 | Methods and Materials |
| 6 | 1 | Kyongho, Hwang and Nation, Paul | Reducing the vocabulary load and encouraging vocabulary learning through reading newspapers | pdf | 1989 | Lexis |
| 6 | 1 | Matthews, Margaret | Woods and trees: The correction of myopia in L2 reading | pdf | 1989 | Methods and Materials |
| 6 | 1 | Smith, Katy | Understanding computers | 1989 | Reviews |
| 6 | 1 | Suarez, Andres and Meara, Paul | The effects of irregular orthography on the processing of words in a foreign language | pdf | 1989 | The Reading Process |
| 6 | 2 | Anderson, J. Charles | Testing reading comprehension skills (part one) | pdf | 1990 | Testing |
| 6 | 2 | Kitao, Kenji, Yamamoto, Massayo, Kitao, S. Kathleen, and Shimatani, Hiroshi | Independent reading in English - Use of graded readers in the library English as second language corner | pdf | 1990 | Graded Readers |
| 6 | 2 | Paran, Amos | More than meets the eye. Foreign language reading: Theory and practice | 1990 | Reviews |
| 6 | 2 | Raj, Devinder and Hunt, Brian | The Malaysian class reader programme | pdf | 1990 | Graded Readers |
| 6 | 2 | Seidlhofer, Barbara | Summary judgements: Perspectives on reading and writing | pdf | 1990 | The Reading Process |
| 6 | 2 | Simensen, Aud Marit | Adapted texts: A discussion of some aspects of reference | pdf | 1990 | Graded Readers |
| 7 | 1 | Alderson, J. Charles | Testing reading comprehension skills (part two) | pdf | 1990 | Testing |
| 7 | 1 | Ambatchew, Michael D. | Literature with a small 'l' | 1990 | Reviews |
| 7 | 1 | Dhaif, Husain | Reading aloud for comprehension | pdf | 1990 | Methods and Materials |
| 7 | 1 | Matthews, Margaret | Skill taxonomies and problems for the testing of reading | pdf | 1990 | Testing |
| 7 | 1 | Parrott, Jeremy | Reading, schema theory and second language learners | 1990 | Reviews |
| 7 | 1 | Peretz, Arna S. and Shoham, Miriam | Testing reading comprehension in LSP | pdf | 1990 | Testing |
| 7 | 1 | Weir, C.J., Hughes, A. and Porter, D. | Reading skills: Hierarchies, implicational relationships and identifiability | pdf | 1990 | Testing |
| 7 | 2 | Day, Richard R., Omura, Carole, and Hiramatsu, Motoo | Incidental EFL vocabulary learning and reading | pdf | 1991 | Lexis |
| 7 | 2 | Divasson-Cilveti, Lourdes | Ingles para medicos: curso de lectura cientifical. (Medical English: A scientific reading course.) | 1991 | Reviews |
| 7 | 2 | Kay, Heather L. | Topic-types revisited: The humanities | pdf | 1991 | Text Analysis |
| 7 | 2 | Lubelska, Diana | An approach to teaching cohesion to improve reading | pdf | 1991 | Course Design |
| 7 | 2 | Ryan, Ann and Meara, Paul | The case of the invisible vowels: Arabic speakers reading English words | pdf | 1991 | The Reading Process |
| 8 | 1 | Cotterall, Sara | Meiko: Case study of a second language reader | pdf | 1991 | Methods and Materials |
| 8 | 1 | Cunningham, Roger | The Zanzibar English reading programme | pdf | 1991 | Course Design |
| 8 | 1 | Lyn, Ross and Maciver, Malcolm | Computers | 1991 | Reviews |
| 8 | 1 | Nesi, Hilary and Meara, Paul | How using dictionaries affects performance in multiple-choice EFL tests | pdf | 1991 | Testing |
| 8 | 1 | Salager-Meyer, Francoise | Reading expository prose at the post-secondary level: The influence of textual variables on L2 reading comprehension (a genre-based approach) | pdf | 1991 | The Reading Process |
| 8 | 2 | Amer, Aly A. | The effect of story grammar instruction on EFL students' comprehension of narrative text | pdf | 1992 | The Reading Process |
| 8 | 2 | Chikalanga, Israel | A suggested taxonomy of inferences for the reading teacher | pdf | 1992 | Methods and Materials |
| 8 | 2 | Cornish, Francis | Foreign language reading comprehension as 'externally-guided thinking' | pdf | 1992 | Course Design |
| 8 | 2 | Hirsh, David and Nation, Paul | What vocabulary size is needed to read unsimplified texts for pleasure? | pdf | 1992 | Lexis |
| 9 | 1 | Meara, Paul | Vocabulary in a Second Language Volume III (1986-1990) | pdf part 1 | part 2 | 1992 | Bibliography |
| 9 | 2 | Alvarez, Gabriel, Broca, Angeles, and Bruton, Anthony | Reading wants and needs in EFL: Learners' and teachers' perceptions | pdf | 1993 | Course Design |
| 9 | 2 | Arden-Close, Christopher | NNS readers' strategies for inferring the meanings of unknown words | pdf | 1993 | The Reading Process |
| 9 | 2 | Nagabhand, Saranya, Nation, Paul and Franken, Margaret | Can text be too friendly? | pdf | 1993 | Text Analysis |
| 9 | 2 | Pino-Silva, Juan | Untutored vocabulary acquisition and L2 reading ability | pdf | 1993 | Lexis |
| 10 | 1 | Amer, Aly Anwar and Khousam, Naguib | The effect of EFL students' reading styles on their reading comprehension performance | pdf | 1993 | The Reading Process |
| 10 | 1 | Buick, Anna | An approach to teaching the reading skill for academic study | pdf | 1993 | Course Design |
| 10 | 1 | Carrell, Patricia L. and Carson, Joan G. with Zhe, Dong | First and second language reading strategies: Evidence from cloze | pdf | 1993 | The Reading Process |
| 10 | 1 | Chikalanga, I. W. | Exploring inferencing ability of ESL readers | pdf | 1993 | The Reading Process |
| 10 | 1 | Williams, Eddie | First and second language reading proficiency of year 3, 4, and 6 children in Malawi and Zambia | pdf | 1993 | Methods and Materials |
| 10 | 2 | Mutawa, Najat A. Al and Islam, Nadra | Evaluation of an EAP reading course at the Faculty of Education, Kuwait University | pdf | 1994 | Course Design |
| 10 | 2 | Ridgway, Tony | Reading theory and foreign language reading comprehension | pdf | 1994 | The Reading Process |
| 10 | 2 | Stoller, Fredericka L. | Developing a focused reading lab for L2 students | pdf | 1994 | Course Design |
| 10 | 2 | Weir, Cyril J. and Porter, Don | The multi-divisible or unitary nature of reading: The language tester between Scylla and Charybdis | pdf | 1994 | Testing |
| 11 | 1 | Brown, Steven | Modality in prereading: An investigation of intertextuality | pdf | 1997 | The Reading Process |
| 11 | 1 | Ridgway, Tony | Thresholds of the background knowledge effect in foreign language reading | pdf | 1997 | The Reading Process |
| 11 | 1 | Taguchi, Etsuo | The effects of repeated readings on the development of lower identification skills of FL readers | pdf | 1997 | The Reading Process |
| 11 | 1 | Walker, Carolyn | A self access extensive reading project using graded readers (with particular reference to students of English for academic purposes) | pdf | 1997 | Graded Readers |
| 11 | 2 | Hadfield, Charles | 57 Varieties: A can of words: New ways of using drama and literature in the classrom ed. Valerie Whiteson | 1998 | Reviews |
| 11 | 2 | Horst, Marlise, Cobb, Tom and Meara, Paul | Beyond a Clockwork Orange: Acquiring second language vocabulary through reading | pdf | 1998 | Lexis |
| 11 | 2 | Mustafa, Zahra | Reading for science and technology in a foreign language: Students' Evaluation of formal instruction on reading strategies | pdf | 1998 | The Reading Process |
| 11 | 2 | Tomlinson, Brian | And now for something not completely different: An approach to language through literature | pdf | 1998 | Methods and Materials |
| 11 | 2 | Tweissi, Adel I. | The effects of the amount and type of simplification on foreign language reading comprehension | pdf | 1998 | Graded Readers |
| 12 | 1 | Davies, Diane | Metadiscourse and recent fictional narrators: a process-based approach to reading novels with international students | pdf | 1998 | Text Analysis |
| 12 | 1 | Janzen, Joy and Stoller, Fredricka L. | Integrating strategic reading into L2 instruction | pdf | 1998 | The Reading Process |
| 12 | 1 | Kailani, Taiseer Zaid | Reading aloud in EFL revisited | pdf | 1998 | Methods and Materials |
| 12 | 1 | Randles, Lesley | Teaching critical literacy by Burns, Anne and Hood Susan (eds) | 1998 | Reviews |
| 12 | 2 | Arden-Close, Christopher | Taiwanese university freshmen's difficulties with reading in English | pdf | 1999 | The Reading Process |
| 12 | 2 | Jacobs, George, Renandya, Willy A. and Bamford, Julian | Annotated bibliography of works on extensive reading in a second language: invitation to our readers | pdf | 1999 | Bibliography |
| 12 | 2 | Nation, Paul and Wang Ming-tzu, Karen | Graded readers and vocabulary | pdf | 1999 | Graded Readers |
| 12 | 2 | Nuttall, Christine | Extensive reading in the second language classroom by Richard R. Day and Julian Bamford | 1999 | Reviews |
| 12 | 2 | Ward, Jeremy | How large a vocabulary do EAP engineering students need | pdf | 1999 | Lexis |
| 13 | 1 | Hsueh-chao, Marcella Hu and Nation, Paul | Unknown vocabulary density and reading comprehension | pdf | 2000 | Lexis |
| 13 | 1 | Jacobs, George, Renandya, Willy A. and Bamford, Julian | Annotated bibliography of works on extensive reading in a second language | pdf part 1 | pdf part 2 | 2000 | Bibliography |
| 13 | 1 | Lesikin, Joan | Complex text in ESL grammar textbooks: Barriers or gateways? | pdf | 2000 | Text Analysis |
| 13 | 1 | Tomlinson, Brian | Polemic: Beginning to read forever | pdf | 2000 | Course Design |
| 13 | 2 | Bartu, Hulya | Can't I read without thinking? | pdf | 2001 | The Reading Process |
| 13 | 2 | Carrell, Patricia L. | Influence of purpose for reading on second language reading: Reading procedural texts in ESL | pdf | 2001 | The Reading Process |
| 13 | 2 | Farrell, Thomas S. C. | Teaching reading strategies: 'It takes time!' | pdf | 2001 | Methods and Materials |
| 13 | 2 | Laufer, Batia and Yano, Yasukata | Understanding unfamiliar words in a text: Do L2 learners understand how much they don't understand? | pdf | 2001 | Lexis |
| 13 | 2 | Sehlaoui, Abdelilah Salim | Facing the challenge of teaching and learning EFL reading: Beyond the language of critique | pdf | 2001 | Course Design |