Previous Issues

2018
Volume 30, No. 1

 

From the Editors

Regular Articles

Reading in Languages other than English

Effective strategy groups used by readers of Chinese as a foreign language

Sha Huang

Second language (L2) reading research suggests that successful reading comprehension usually involves a repertoire of strategies. Although Chinese is considered …

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Extensive Reading

Multilinguals and extensive reading: Two multilinguality portraits of learners of Norwegian

Anna M. Krulatz; Jennifer Duggan

This paper presents an exploratory-interpretive study of two multilingual adults acquiring Norwegian through extensive reading. The study examined social and …

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Increasing reading self-efficacy and reading amount in EFL learners with word-targets

Stuart McLean; Joseph Poulshock

We compared three methods for increasing reading amount and reading self-efficacy among L2 learners. (1) We required a word-target group …

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Bringing extensive reading and reading strategies into the Taiwanese junior college classroom

Ying-Chun Shih; Chiou-lan Chern; Barry Lee Reynolds

An intact 10th grade English as a Foreign Language vocational business junior college reading intervention class (n = 52) received …

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Lexis

Incidental learning of duplex collocations from reading: Three case studies

Marijana Macis

There is little research available on the incidental learning of figurative language from reading (e.g., Webb, Newton, & Chang, 2013). …

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Testing

The threshold of anxiety in low-stakes testing for foreign language reading

The following question has yet to be answered by researchers: when does anxiety have a systematic downward bias on foreign …

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Methods and Materials

Embodied EFL reading activity: Let’s produce comics

Ruei-Fang Shiang

While theories of embodied cognition have been investigated in lab experiments with proficient readers, currently no studies have applied these …

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The Reading Process

L2 reading fluency progression using timed reading and repeated oral reading

Torrin R. Shimono

The progression of silent reading rates and reading comprehension were examined among Japanese university students (N = 55) over one …

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Reviews

Literature Into the Classroom by Amos Paran & Pauline Robinson

Sultan Altalhab

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The Use of L1 Cognitive Resources in L2 Reading by Chinese EFL Learners by Shiyu Wu

Haley Dolosic

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