Previous Issues

2010
Volume 22, No. 1

Special Issue: In Honor of Paul Nation

 

From the Editors

From the Guest Editor

Averil Coxhead

Regular Articles

Lexis

Grabbed early by vocabulary: Nation’s ongoing contributions to vocabulary and reading in a foreign language

Averil Coxhead

“I was grabbed early [by vocabulary] and never let go. That’s why it’s difficult to explain why I enjoy working …

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Lexical threshold revisited: Lexical text coverage, learners’ vocabulary size and reading comprehension

Batia Laufer; Geke C. Ravenhorst-Kalovski

We explore the relationship between second language (L2) learners’ vocabulary size, lexical text coverage that their vocabulary provides and their …

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Incidental vocabulary acquisition from an authentic novel: Do Things Fall Apart?

Ana Pellicer-Sánchez; Norbert Schmitt

Nation (2006) has calculated that second language (L2) learners require much more vocabulary than previously thought to be functional with …

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The quality and frequency of encounters with vocabulary in an English for Academic Purposes programme

Angela Joe

This longitudinal case study tracks an adult second-language (L2) learner’s quality and quantity of encounters with 20 vocabulary items in …

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Is explicit vocabulary focus the reading teacher’s job?

Keith Folse

This paper reports findings from a case study of the amount of explicit vocabulary focus (EVF) that occurred in a …

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How well does teacher talk support incidental vocabulary acquisition?

Marlise Horst

Opportunities for incidental vocabulary acquisition were explored in a 121,000-word corpus of teacher talk addressed to advanced adult learners of …

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Using glossaries to increase the lexical coverage of television programs

Stuart Webb

This study examined the extent to which glossaries may affect the percentage of known words (coverage) in television programs. The …

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Words as species: An alternative approach to estimating productive vocabulary size

Paul Meara; Juan Carlos Olmos Alcoy

This paper addresses the issue of how we might be able to assess productive vocabulary size in second language learners. …

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Methods and Materials

Vocabulary learning through reading: Does an ELT course book provide good opportunities?

Warren Matsuoka; David Hirsh

This study investigates the vocabulary learning opportunities in an ELT course book designed for upper-intermediate learners. All the words appearing …

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Exploring a new technique for comparing bilinguals’ L1 and L2 reading speed

Hanna S. Gauvin; Jan H. Hulstijn

Is it possible to tell whether bilinguals are able to read simple text in their two languages equally fluently? Is …

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Learning about language and learners from computer programs

Tom Cobb

Making Nation’s text analysis software accessible via the World Wide Web has opened up an exploration of how his learning …

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The Reading Process

Fluency in reading—Thirty-five years later

William Grabe

Paul Nation’s talents and interests extend well beyond vocabulary to include research on speaking, writing, classroom learning and teaching, reading, …

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Speed reading courses and their effect on reading authentic texts: A preliminary investigation

John Macalister

Fluent reading is essential for successful comprehension. One dimension of reading fluency is reading rate, or reading speed. Because of …

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Reviews

Second Language Reading Research and Instruction: Crossing the Boundaries by ZhaoHong Han and Neil J. Anderson (Eds.)

Ryan T. Miller

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