Previous Issues

2007
Volume 19, No. 1

 

From the Editors

Call for Papers for Special Issue With Two Themes

Regular Articles

Extensive Reading

Japanese high school students’ motivation for extensive L2 reading

Atsuko Takase

To investigate factors that motivate Japanese high school students to read English extensively, I assessed 219 female high school students …

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The Reading Process

Content schemata, linguistic simplification, and EFL readers’ comprehension and recall

Mohammad Hossein Keshavarz; Mahmoud Reza Atai; Hossein Ahmadi

This study investigated the effects of linguistic simplification and content schemata on reading comprehension and recall. The participants, 240 Iranian …

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Methods and Materials

Graphic organizers in reading instruction: Research findings and issues

Xiangying Jiang; William Grabe

As an instructional tool, graphic organizers (GOs) have been highly recommended and used in contemporary classrooms. Over the past decade, …

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Graded Readers

A comparative analysis of racism in the original and modified texts of The Cay

Ten high-school students of English as a second language (ESL) intensively studied the modified version of The Cay (retold by …

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Reviews

Fluency Instruction: Research-Based Best Practices by Timothy V. Rasinski, Camille Blachowicz, and Kristin Lems (Eds.)

Yurika Iwahori

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Balancing Reading and Language Learning: A Resource for Teaching English Language Learners, K–5 by Mary Cappellini

On Kei Lee

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