Previous Issues

2024
Volume 36, No. 1

Regular Articles

The interplay among silent reading rate, comprehension, and an audio reading model

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 …

May 29
Inside the digital hagwons: High-stakes reading test preparation in Korea

Jieun Kim

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

May 29
Facilitating L2 reading comprehension through L1 and L2 group discussions

Abdulrahman Almalki; Mohammed Alzahrani

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

May 10
Incidental Grammar Acquisition Through Meaning-focused Reading: Structure Frequency and Reading Comprehension

Chi Duc Nguyen

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

Apr 22
Japanese university EFL learners’ responses to lexically easy short English poems

Takayuki Nishihara

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

Apr 15
The perceived and measured difficulty of texts and tasks in L1 and L2

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 …

Apr 8
Effectiveness of a multimodal approach during online reading strategy instruction

Sachi Oshima

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

Mar 5
Corpus Lists for English Learners: Supporting Reading Comprehension of Digital Science Resources

Rebeca Arndt

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

Jan 31
The Effects of Strategic Adjunct Questions on L2 Reading and Strategy Use

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 …

Jan 31

Discussions

The authors respond: Issues surrounding reliability, quality, and practicality with timed-reading assessments: Expanding on Carter et al.’s (2023) a unitary measure of L2 silent reading fluency accounting for comprehension

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 …

Mar 12
Variables associated with Second Language Strategy Training: Comments on Lin, Gao, and Huang (2023)

Alan M. Taylor

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

Feb 22

Reviews

Reading in a Second Language: Moving from Theory to Practice (2nd Edition) by William Grabe and Junko Yamashita

Monika Kusiak-Pisowacka

Jan 31