Previous Issues

2008
Volume 20, No. 1

 

From the Editors

Regular Articles

The Reading Process

Research on good and poor reader characteristics: Implications for L2 reading research in China

Jixian Pang

In reading research, studies on good and poor reader characteristics abound. However, these findings remain largely scattered in applied linguistics …

1
Spelling knowledge and reading development: Insights from Arab ESL learners

Michael Fender

The aim of the present study was to examine the relationship between spelling knowledge and reading skills among a group …

19
Graded Readers

Comparing the vocabulary of different graded-reading schemes

Udorn Wan-a-rom

This study compared graded-reader wordlists with the General Service List (GSL; West, 1953) and investigated the words in those lists …

43
Extensive Reading

Developing reading fluency: A study of extensive reading in EFL

Yurika Iwahori

Due to the great interest of practitioners on reading fluency in first language (L1) and second language (L2) English classroom …

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Lexis

Vocabulary recycling in children’s authentic reading materials: A corpus-based investigation of narrow reading

Dee Gardner

Fourteen collections of children’s reading materials were used to investigate the claim that collections of authentic texts with a common …

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Reviews

Cultural Practices of Literacy: Case Studies of Language, Literacy, Social Practice and Power by Victoria Purcell-Gates (Ed.)

Teresa Castineira

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Reading Work: Literacies in the New Workplace by Mary Ellen Belfiore, Tracey A. Defoe, Sue Folinsbee, Judy Hunter, & Nancy S. Jackson (The In- Sites Research Group)

Helen de Silva Joyce

129
Reading Skills for College Students by Ophelia H. Hancock

Zhijun Wen

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