Previous Issues

2009
Volume 21, No. 1

Special Issue: Reading in Languages Other Than English

 

From the Editors

From the Guest Editor

Cindy Brantmeier; Keiko Koda

Special Issue

Reading in Languages Other Than English

Russian orthography and learning to read

Eugenia Kerek; Pekka Niemi

The unique structure of Russian orthography may influence the organization and acquisition of reading skills in Russian. The present review …

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Early reading strategies in Irish and English: Evidence from error types

Christine E. Parsons; Fiona Lyddy

For the majority of people in Ireland, Irish is a second language acquired primarily through the schooling system. This study …

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Regular Articles

The Reading Process

Chinese senior high school EFL students’ metacognitive awareness and reading-strategy use

Lawrence Jun Zhang; Aijiao Wu

This paper reports findings from a study that assesses metacognitive awareness and reading-strategy use of Chinese senior high school students …

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The effects of cultural familiarity on reading comprehension

İsmail Hakkı Erten; Salim Razı

This study investigated whether cultural familiarity influences comprehension of short stories and whether nativizing the story or using reading activities …

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Reviews

English L2 Reading: Getting to the Bottom (2nd ed.) by Barbara M. Birch

Handoyo Puji Widodo; Zhiling Wu

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Reframing Sociocultural Research on Literacy: Identity, Agency, and Power by Cynthia Lewis, Patricia E. Enciso, and Elizabeth Birr Moje (Eds.)

Michael Thomas Witten

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Teaching Reading to English Language Learners: A Reflective Guide by Thomas S. C. Farrell

Alex Poole

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