Previous Issues

2009
Volume 21, No. 2

 

From the Editors

Regular Articles

Extensive Reading

Teacher modeling: Its impact on an extensive reading program

Jason Kok Khiang Loh

This case study investigates whether teachers model reading in 1 Singapore primary school during an exercise called uninterrupted sustained silent …

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The Reading Process

L1 glosses: Effects on EFL learners’ reading comprehension and vocabulary retention

Ying-Hsueh Cheng; Robert L. Good

The present study examines the effects of 3 kinds of glosses—first-language (L1) Chinese glosses plus second-language (L2) English example sentences, …

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A limitation on reading as a source of linguistic input: Evidence from deaf learners

Joseph H. Bochner; Anne M. Bochner

This paper identifies a general limitation on printed text as a source of input for language acquisition. The paper contends …

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Topic congruence and topic interest: How do they affect second language reading comprehension?

Sang-Ki Lee

Because human memory is largely reconstructive, people tend to reorganize and reevaluate an event in a way that is coherent …

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Reading Instruction

Heritage background, motivation, and reading ability of upper-level postsecondary students of Chinese, Japanese, and Korean

Kimi Kondo-Brown

In upper-level university foreign language (FL) courses, FL and heritage language (HL) students are often merged into the same classroom …

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Testing

Academic English reading proficiency at the university level: A Norwegian case study

Glenn Ole Hellekjær

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Reviews

Literacy Research for Political Action and Social Change by Mollie V. Blackburn and Caroline T. Clark (Eds.)

Bong-gi Sohn

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Teaching ESL/EFL Reading and Writing by I. S. Paul Nation

Heike Neumann

228

Feature

Readings on L2 Readings

Readings on L2 reading: Publications in other venues 2008–2009

Cindy Brantmeier; Tracy van Bishop; Violaine White

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