Jing Sun; Xiao Luo; Hye K. Pae

Challenges in reading Chinese as a foreign language involve the large proportion of two-character compound words which have complex intra-word …

Mintra Puripunyavanich; Rob Waring

This study reports how extensive reading (ER) teachers implemented ER and used reading materials at institutions in formal educational systems …

Hang Li; Shuting Zhang; Ximeng Tang

While the effect of reading strategies on L2 test performance has been extensively researched, the effect of test-taking strategies remains …

Namhee Suk

This study investigated second language (L2) learners’ use of reading strategies through extensive reading in a Korean English as a …

Diane Pecorari; Hans Malmström; Philip Shaw

The undeniable importance of reading in higher education prompted this investigation into the reading skills of a group often overlooked …

Brett Mohar

L2 extensive reading (ER) research primarily studies intermediate and upper-intermediate learners, but few studies investigate beginners. This study addresses this …

Helen H. Shen; Dexin Dai

This study investigated college Chinese a second language learners’ word segmentation error patterns in reading instructional-level Chinese sentences, the relationship …

Mitsue Tabata-Sandom; Yoko Ikeda

This study examines how the perceptions that twelve teachers of Japanese as a second language (L2) had of extensive reading …

Etsuo Taguchi; Greta Gorsuch; Kristin Lems; Hiroto Toda; Toshiko Kawaguchi; Kirsten M. Snipp

This paper examines learners’ fluency development in L2 silent reading rate and comprehension. In both L1 and L2 readings, a …

Jieun Kim

High-stakes reading tests significantly influence one’s future success, leading many second language learners to engage in intensive test preparation. This …

Abdulrahman Almalki; Mohammed Alzahrani

The current study was set to explore the influence of the first (L1) and second (L2) language group discussions on …

Chi Duc Nguyen

Research shows that meaning-focused reading offers opportunities for incidental grammar acquisition. However, the number of such studies remains limited and …

Takayuki Nishihara

This study explored the diverse responses of Japanese university-level learners of English as a foreign language (EFL) to lexically easy …

Monika Grotek; Agnieszka Ślęzak-Świat

The study investigates the effect of the perception of text and task difficulty on adults’ performance in reading tests in …

Sachi Oshima

The purpose of this study was to examine the effectiveness of a multimodal approach in which an additional camera was …

Rebeca Arndt

This study explored the lexical coverage of corpus-based vocabulary lists (general, academic, and content-specific) across several million tokens gathered from …

Yanjie Li; Cindy Brantmeier; Yanming Gao; Mike Strube

This experimental study examined the effect of answering strategic adjunct questions (AQs) on L2 reading comprehension and strategy use. Participants …

Jia Lin; Gengsong Gao; Ting Huang

This article responds to Alan Taylor’s commentary (Taylor, 2024) on our study, Lin et al. (2023), which reported the positive …

Shuyi Yang

This discussion piece explores issues and components that makes original research manuscripts submitted to Reading in a Foreign Language truly …

Steven J. Carter; Matthew P. Wilcox

Carter et al. (2023) presented empirical evidence in support of a proposed new measure of L2 silent reading fluency. Referencing …

Alan M. Taylor

This article discusses variables in the study by Lin et al. (2023), demonstrating statistically how important their study is in …

Kai Zhong; Ling Yann Wong

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Monika Kusiak-Pisowacka