Reading as a Foreign Language

Richard Day and John Macalister, Editors

Supported by the Center for Language & Technology and the National Foreign Language Resource Center at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa

2022
Volume 34, No. 2 ^newest

From the editors

Regular Articles

An extensive reading program as an educational intervention in an EFL classroom

Akira Iwata

This study aims to investigate the influence of an English as a foreign language college extensive reading program on different …

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Extensive reading for a 9,000-word vocabulary: Evidence from corpus modeling

Clarence Green

This paper contributes to a research program within extensive reading (ER) and Reading in a Foreign Language using corpora to …

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Exploring perceived difficulty of graded reader texts

Yuya Arai

Although proponents of extensive reading (ER) have recommended easy reading material, book difficulty has been poorly defined and operationalized in …

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Comparing reading strategy measures and L2 readers’ performance on different comprehension tasks

Yanjie Li; Cindy Brantmeier; Yanming Gao; Mark Hogrebe

In second language (L2) reading strategy research, two concerns need addressing: (1) the discrepancy in assessing strategy use between written …

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Reading comprehension component skills of Chinese-speaking ESL and EFL learners

Sihui Echo Ke

This research compared the contributions of lexical inferencing, decoding, and listening comprehension to reading comprehension in Chinese-speaking learners of English …

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Linguistic abilities related to word reading in Persian and Swedish

Baran Johansson

Previous studies have found that phonological processing and vocabulary predict word reading. However, their predictive powers may vary according to …

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Incidental acquisition of Italian words from comic books

Mahnaz Aliyar; Elke Peters

Despite empirical evidence from research showing that the use of text-picture combination is beneficial for second language (L2) learning, little …

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IEP reading instruction during the COVID-19 emergency remote teaching

Adil Bentahar; Ali Alalou

Using a mixed method explanatory sequential design, this study investigates intensive English program (IEP) instructors’ perceptions of the impact of …

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Structure of research topics of reading in a foreign language's publications in the past two decades (2002-2020): a bibliometric analysis

Yu Wang; Han Luo; Min Gui

This bibliometric study analyzed the research topic structure of the Reading in a Foreign Language (RFL) journal in the past …

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Discussions

Discussion Forum

Reforming assessment is key to successful ER implementation: Expanding on Robb (2022)

Charlie Taylor

This article suggests that exams which test mastery of materials rather than proficiency create an inhospitable environment for extensive reading …

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Response to Taylor’s reforming assessment is key to successful ER implementation: Expanding on Robb (2022)

Thomas Robb

I completely agree with Taylor (2022) that a proportion of the students’ grades based on participation or effort would surely …

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Feature

Readings on L2 Reading

Readings on L2 reading: Publications in other venues 2021-2022

Shenika Harris; David Balmaceda M; Hadis Ghaedi; José Luis Garrido Rivera

This feature offers an archive of articles published in other venues during the past year and serves as a valuable …

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Reading in a Foreign Language is published by the National Foreign Language Resource Center (NFLRC) at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa.

We would like to invite you to check out RFL’s sister journal, Language Learning & Technology, which seeks to disseminate research to foreign and second language educators in the US and around the world on issues related to technology and language education. LLT articles are published throughout the year as they become ready. In addition, Special Issues are published 1 to 2 times a year. LLT is available free of charge to all readers and subscribers. Both RFL and LLT are published by the NFLRC.

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