Previous Issues

2015
Volume 27, No. 2

Special Issue: Connections between Second Language Reading and Writing

 

From the Editors

From the Guest Editor

Betsy Gilliland; Jeongyeon Park

Special Issue

Extensive Reading

Improving EFL learners' writing through enhanced extensive reading

Aaron David Mermelstein

This study’s purpose is to seek out methods of improving reading and writing for EFL learners. This one-year study focuses …

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Methods and Materials

Connecting reading and writing using children's literature in the university L2 classroom

Priscila Leal

This article investigates the potential benefits of using children’s literature in adult second language (L2) classrooms. A short-term, intensive university …

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Reading Instruction

Undergraduate ESL students' engagement in academic reading and writing in learning to write a synthesis paper

Ruilan Zhao; Alan Hirvela

As an important and a challenging source-based writing task, synthesizing offers rich opportunities to explore the connections between reading and …

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Integrated reading and writing: A case of Korean English language learners

Hyonsuk Cho; Janina Brutt-Griffler

This study reports Korean English language learners’ perceived needs concerning their learning of reading and writing and how the integrated …

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Using 'Close Reading' as a course theme in a multilingual disciplinary classroom

Leora Freedman

An adaptation of the traditional literary concept of close reading was developed for use in a largely multilingual classroom in …

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Reading, writing, and learning English in an American high school classroom

Betsy Gilliland

Commercial publishers have shaped reading and writing instruction in American schools through their interpretations of state-developed reading and writing standards …

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Discussions

Discussion Forum

Extending extensive reading

Richard R. Day

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The effectiveness of core ER principles

Eun Young Jeon; Richard R. Day

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The core principles of extensive reading in an EAP writing context

Jeongyeon Park; Eunseok Ro

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Feature

Readings on L2 Readings

Reading on L2 reading: Publications in other venues 2014-2015

Cindy Brantmeier; Haley Dolosic; Lyndsie Schultz; Cristian Aquino-Sterling; Tracy Van Bishop

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