Previous Issues

2011
Volume 23, No. 1

 

From the Editors

Regular Articles

Extensive Reading

Extensive reading and the effect of shadowing

Takayuki Nakanishi; Atsuko Ueda

The aim of this study is to investigate the effects of extensive reading (ER) and shadowing on performance on reading …

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The Reading Process

Reading books in class: What "just to read a book" can mean

This article presents and analyzes qualitative ethnographic data from research investigating intensive reading in an English Second Language high school …

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Methods and Materials

Roles of general versus second language (L2) knowledge in L2 reading comprehension

Ying Guo; Alysia D. Roehrig

We examined the roles of metacognitive awareness of reading strategies, syntactic awareness in English, and English vocabulary knowledge in the …

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Lexis

A primer on the General Service List

Leah Gilner

This paper aims to be an introduction to the General Service List (GSL) that brings together descriptive data with material …

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Text Analysis

Text readability and intuitive simplification: A comparison of readability formulas

Scott A. Crossley; David B. Allen; Danielle S. McNamara

Texts are routinely simplified for language learners with authors relying on a variety of approaches and materials to assist them …

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Reading Instruction

Links between teachers' beliefs and practices and research on reading

Irena Kuzborska

Teachers’ beliefs are thought to have a profound influence on their classroom practices. An understanding of this relationship is important …

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Reviews

Understanding Advanced Second-Language reading by Elizabeth Bernhardt

Zahir Mumin

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Bringing Extensive Reading into the Classroom by Richard Day, Jennifer Bassett, Bill Bowler, Sue Parminter, Nick Bullard, Mark Furr, Nina Prentice, Minas Mahmood, Daniel Stewart, and Thomas Robb

Jin Woo

135

Feature

Reading in Languages other than English

Reading in other languages: A bibliography for the scholar-teacher

Cindy Brantmeier; Stacy Davis; Megan Havard

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