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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT size=2>The October 2011 issue (Volume 23, Number 2) of the electronic journal<BR>Reading in a Foreign Language (RFL) is now online and can be read at<BR><BR><A href="http://nflrc.hawaii.edu/rfl/October2011/">http://nflrc.hawaii.edu/rfl/October2011/</A><BR><BR><BR>In this issue, Patrick B. Judge reports on a long-term, multi-case study<BR>examining the motivations of eager readers in an extensive reading program<BR>at a private Japanese high school. In the second article, Cindy Brantmeier,<BR>Aimee Callender, & Mark McDaniel examine the effects of embedded "what"<BR>questions and elaborative "why" questions on reading comprehension with<BR>advanced second language learners of Spanish. And finally, Jing Wang &<BR>Christine H. Leland report on their study of what beginning learners of<BR>Chinese perceive as helpful in learning to recognize characters.<BR><BR>This issue also includes two book reviews:<BR><BR>Zahir Mumin reviews Studies in Language Testing 29: Examining Reading:<BR>Research and Practice in Assessing Second Language Reading by Hanan Khalifa<BR>& Cyril J. Weir. And the series of Real Reading: Creating an Authentic<BR>Reading Experience 1-4 by Lynn Bonesteel, David Wiese, & Alice Savage is<BR>reviewed by Pakize Uludag & CeAnn Myers.<BR><BR>We also have a discussion in this issue, in which John P. Racine comments on<BR>an article by Meara & Olmos Alcoy that appeared in Volume 22, #1, April<BR>2010.<BR><BR>In the last section of this issue, Cindy Brantmeier, Xuicheng Yu, and Tracy<BR>Van Bishop have a feature on Readings on L2 Reading: Publications in Other<BR>Venues 2010-2011.<BR><BR><BR>RFL is a scholarly, refereed journal published on the World Wide Web by the<BR>University of Hawai`i, with Richard R. Day and Thom Hudson as the co-editors<BR>and Anne Burns, Macquarie University, as the reviews editor.<BR><BR>The journal is sponsored by the National Foreign Language Resource Center<BR>(NFLRC), the University of Hawai'i College of Languages, Linguistics and<BR>Literature, and the University of Hawai'i Department of Second Language<BR>Studies. The journal is a fully-refereed journal with an editorial board of<BR>scholars in the field of foreign and second language reading. There is no<BR>subscription fee to readers of the journal. It is published twice a year, in<BR>April and October. Detailed information about Reading in a Foreign Language<BR>can be found at <A href="http://nflrc.hawaii.edu/rfl">http://nflrc.hawaii.edu/rfl</A><BR><BR><BR>Aloha,<BR><BR><BR>Hanbyul Jung<BR>Assistant Editor<BR>Reading in a Foreign Language<BR><BR><A href="http://nflrc.hawaii.edu/rfl">http://nflrc.hawaii.edu/rfl</A></FONT></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>