<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:12px"><br></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:12px">The April 2020 issue (Volume 32, Number 1) of the electronic journal </span><i style="font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:12px">Reading in a Foreign Language </i><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:12px">(RFL) is now online and can be read at:</span><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">
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<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">This issue of <i>RFL</i> is a little leaner than usual, with only two regular articles. In the first, Chen Chen and Yongcan Liu explore the role of vocabulary breadth and depth in second language learners’ performance in IELTS academic reading tests in China and find that both correlate significantly with IELTS reading test scores. In the second, Yuka Mikami investigates the processes of motivational change through goal setting in extensive reading, and finds that when students use goal setting effectively, they feel a sense of achievement, enhance their intrinsic motivation and self-efficacy, and form a virtuous cycle toward new goals. Both studies have clear pedagogical implications.</p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">In this issue we also introduce a new feature which we have named New Directions in Reading Research. As the name suggests, this is an opportunity for contributors to comment on emerging directions in or future directions for reading research. We would note that this is not a peer-reviewed feature. In the inaugural feature, Nathan Thomas focuses attention on incidental L2 vocabulary learning and discusses research design innovations and their implications for research and practice in two related studies, Ong and Zhang (2018) and Mohamed (2018). </p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">The issue is rounded out by Mitsue Tabata-Sandom’s review of Teaching extensive reading in another language, by Paul Nation and Rob Waring. This is only the second book that we are aware of dedicated solely to extensive reading since Day & Bamford’s ground-breaking Extensive reading in the second language classroom (1998), so it was certainly an overdue addition to the literature. </p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman""><span>Aloha, stay safe and take care,</span></p>
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