Previous Issues

2021
Volume 33, No. 2

 

From the Editors

Regular Articles

Visuospatial Working Memory and the Hybrid Reading Fluency Measure

Bartolo Bazan

In this study, I sought to investigate whether visuospatial working memory (VWM) explains individual differences in reading fluency growth. One …

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Exploring Task-completion Processes in L2 Reading Assessments: Multiple-choice vs. Short-answer Questions

Ray J. T. Liao

This study was to compare the processes that second language learners implemented when completing reading tasks in a multiple-choice question …

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The Effects of Combining Timed Reading, Repeated Oral Reading, and Extensive Reading

Brett Milliner

This quasi-experimental study traces a 12-week reading fluency training program for elementary-level English as a foreign language (EFL) learners at …

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Constructing Diagnostic Reading Assessment Instruments for Low-level Chinese as Second Language Learners

Shuyi Yang

The present study investigated the applicability of word reading, word segmentation, and text reading as diagnostic tools to assess comprehension, …

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Discussions

Discussion Forum

Lexical Thresholds and Alleged Threats to Validity: A Storm in a Teacup?

Batia Laufer

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Lexical Mastery Thresholds and Lexical Units: A Reply to Laufer

Stuart McLean; Tim Stoeckel

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Response to Yang et al. (2021): Clarifying the Input Hypothesis

Charlie Taylor

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Feature

New Directions in Reading Research

Effective Treatment of Vocabulary when Teaching L2 Reading: The Example of Yoko Tawada’s Wo Europa anfängt

Friederike Fichtner; Joe Barcroft

Second language (L2) learners comprehend more when they are prepared for novel vocabulary that they encounter in a text. Input-based …

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Research Investigating Lexical Coverage and Lexical Profiling: What We Know, What We Don’t Know, and What Needs to be Examined

Stuart Webb

Studies of lexical coverage are valuable because they reveal the importance of vocabulary knowledge to comprehension. Lexical profiling research is …

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Readings on L2 reading

Readings on L2 Reading: Publications in other Venues 2020-2021

Shenika Harris; Yanjie Li; David Balmaceda M.; José Luis Garrido Rivera; Hadis Ghaedi

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