Previous Issues

2017
Volume 29, No. 2

 

From the Editors

Regular Articles

Extensive Reading

Effects of different text difficulty levels on EFL learners' foreign language anxiety and reading comprehension

Roghayeh Bahmani; Mohammad Taghi Farvadin

This study aimed to examine the effects of different text difficulty levels on foreign language reading anxiety (FLRA) and reading …

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Graded Readers

Extensive graded reading with engineering students: Effects and outcomes

Eric Hagley

Extensive graded reading (EGR) was carried out with a cohort of 600 engineering students in a university in northern Japan. …

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Measuring and predicting graded reader difficulty

Trevor A. Holster; J. W. Lake; William R. Pellowe

This study used many-faceted Rasch measurement to investigate the difficulty of graded readers using a 3-item survey. Book difficulty was …

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Methods and Materials

Learning from expository text in L2 reading: Memory for casual relations and L2 reading proficiency

Masaya Hosoda

This study explored the relation between second-language (L2) readers’ memory for causal relations and their learning outcomes from expository text. …

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Reviews

Making Connections Intro: Skills and Strategies for Academic Reading by Jessica Williams & David Wiese

Eman Elturki

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Literature and Language Learning in the EFL Classroom by Masayuki Teranishi, Yoshifumi Saito, & Katie Wales

Cliff Kast

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Feature

Readings on L2 Readings

Reading on L2 reading: Publications in other venues 2016-2017

Shenika Harris; Carolina Bernales; David Balmaceda; Wei-Chieh Fang; Huan Liu; Haley Dolosic

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