Previous Issues

2020
Volume 32, No. 2

 

From the Editors

Regular Articles

Foreign Language Reading Anxiety in the Saudi Tertiary EFL Context

Elias Bensalem

Foreign language (FL) reading is a persistent problem among many learners. This preliminary study investigates FL reading anxiety among students …

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Analyzing the patterns of lexico-grammatical complexity across Graded Reader levels

Larissa Goulart

This study investigates the development of lexico-grammatical complexity in two levels of graded readers, beginner and intermediate. Using the linguistic …

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Effect of timed reading on Chinese undergraduates’ EFL reading rates: Mixed-method analyses

Min Gui; Yajie Shang; Xiaokan Chen

In this article, a three-phase mixed-methods study was conducted to investigate timed reading effects on Chinese university students’ English as …

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Harry Potter and the Prisoners of Vocabulary Instruction: Acquiring Academic Language at Hogwarts

Jeff McQuillan

Several researchers have claimed that low-achieving students, especially second language students, need explicit academic vocabulary instruction to “catch up” with …

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Oral Reading Miscues and Reading Comprehension by Chinese L2 Learners

Helen H. Shen; Yi Zhou; Gensong Gao

This study investigated types of oral reading miscues and their relationship with silent reading comprehension among college-level Chinese as a …

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The Incidental Learning of L2 Chinese Vocabulary through Reading

Jing Zhou; Richard R. Day

The study investigated the effect of marginal glossing and frequency of occurrence on the incidental learning of six aspects of …

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Reviews

Newsela: A Level-Adaptive App to Improve Reading Ability

Musa Nushi; Mohammad Hadi Fadaei

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Feature

Readings on L2 Readings

Readings on L2 reading: Publications in other venues 2019-2020

Shenika Harris; Haley Dolosic; David Balmaceda M.

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