<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><br><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><font face="times new roman, serif">The April 2021 issue (Volume 33, Number 1) of our electronic journal <i>Reading in a Foreign Language </i>(RFL) is now online and can be read at:</font></p><p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;min-height:15px"><font face="times new roman, serif"><br></font></p><p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><a href="https://nflrc.hawaii.edu/rfl/" target="_blank"><font face="times new roman, serif">https://nflrc.hawaii.edu/rfl/</font></a></p><p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;min-height:15px"><font face="times new roman, serif"><br></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-NZ"><font face="times new roman, serif">In this issue of <i>RFL </i>we have five regular articles. Two of these report studies of online extensive reading, a mode of reading that is likely to increase over time. In the first of these, Tuan Bui and John Macalister report on its use with university students in Vietnam, with a focus on fluency changes and perceptions. In the second, Jing Zhou and Richard R. Day report on how EAP students in an American university experienced online extensive reading. Both studies point to the feasibility and acceptability of this approach, though not without some caveats.<span></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-NZ"><span><font face="times new roman, serif"> </font></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-NZ"><font face="times new roman, serif">Extensive reading is also the focus of the article by Ya-Han Yang, Hsi-Chin Chu and Wen‑Ta Tseng. They look at the effects of the text difficulty on the reading comprehension and reading motivation of English as a foreign language (EFL) vocational high school students in Taiwan. They situate their study within Krashen’s input theory and Samuels’ automaticity principle and contribute to our understanding of both.<span></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-NZ"><span><font face="times new roman, serif"> </font></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-NZ"><font face="times new roman, serif">In his article, Ethan M. Lynn explores unassisted repeated reading with attention to intensity, treatment duration, background knowledge, and individual and text variations on reading rate. This is the first study looking at the use of unassisted repeated reading in a post-secondary ESL setting, and the results in terms of reading rate gains may surprise some readers.<span></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-NZ"><span><font face="times new roman, serif"> </font></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-NZ"><font face="times new roman, serif">In the fifth article, Say Phonekeo and John Macalister look at the effect of implementing a ‘culture of thinking’ approach in reading instruction in a teacher education programme in the Lao People’s Democratic Republic; in another first, we believe this is the first time the Lao PDR has featured in <i>RFL</i>. The authors find that principled changes to the format and presentation of coursebook material can significantly affect student learning. <span></span></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-NZ"><span><font face="times new roman, serif"> </font></span></span></p><p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><font face="times new roman, serif"><span lang="EN-NZ" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:17.1200008392334px">In this issue we also continue with the new feature we began a year ago, <b>New Directions in Reading Research. </b>In this feature, Stuart McLean raises important questions about the ways in which researchers address text difficulty in what he calls the Coverage Comprehension Model. McLean examines two major assumptions: the threshold for mastery that is applied when using a levels test, and the nature of the word counting unit. One possible conclusion readers may draw from this is a questioning of the existing research literature</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"></span><br></font></p><p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;min-height:15px"><font face="times new roman, serif"><br></font></p><p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><font face="times new roman, serif">RFL is sponsored by the <span style="text-decoration:underline;color:rgb(0,119,66)">National Foreign Language Resource Center</span> (NFLRC) and the <a href="https://clt.manoa.hawaii.edu/" target="_blank">Center for Language & Technology</a> at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. There is no subscription fee to readers of the journal. It is published twice a year, in April and October. 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