[lg policy] [Edling] New Issue of Reading in a Foreign Language

[Harold Schiffman]

Forwarded From:  edling at lists.sis.utsa.edu


The October 2011 issue (Volume 23, Number 2) of the electronic journal
Reading in a Foreign Language (RFL) is now online and can be read at

http://nflrc.hawaii.edu/rfl/October2011/


In this issue, Patrick B. Judge reports on a long-term, multi-case study
examining the motivations of eager readers in an extensive reading program
at a private Japanese high school. In the second article, Cindy Brantmeier,
Aimee Callender, & Mark McDaniel examine the effects of embedded "what"
questions and elaborative "why" questions on reading comprehension with
advanced second language learners of Spanish. And finally, Jing Wang &
Christine H. Leland report on their study of what beginning learners of
Chinese perceive as helpful in learning to recognize characters.

This issue also includes two book reviews:

Zahir Mumin reviews Studies in Language Testing 29: Examining Reading:
Research and Practice in Assessing Second Language Reading by Hanan Khalifa
& Cyril J. Weir. And the series of Real Reading: Creating an Authentic
Reading Experience 1-4 by Lynn Bonesteel, David Wiese, & Alice Savage is
reviewed by Pakize Uludag & CeAnn Myers.

We also have a discussion in this issue, in which John P. Racine comments on
an article by Meara & Olmos Alcoy that appeared in Volume 22, #1, April
2010.

In the last section of this issue, Cindy Brantmeier, Xuicheng Yu, and Tracy
Van Bishop have a feature on Readings on L2 Reading: Publications in Other
Venues 2010-2011.


RFL is a scholarly, refereed journal published on the World Wide Web by the
University of Hawai`i, with Richard R. Day and Thom Hudson as the co-editors
and Anne Burns, Macquarie University, as the reviews editor.

The journal is sponsored by the National Foreign Language Resource Center
(NFLRC), the University of Hawai'i College of Languages, Linguistics and
Literature, and the University of Hawai'i Department of Second Language
Studies. The journal is a fully-refereed journal with an editorial board of
scholars in the field of foreign and second language reading. There is no
subscription fee to readers of the journal. It is published twice a year, in
April and October. Detailed information about Reading in a Foreign Language
can be found at http://nflrc.hawaii.edu/rfl


Aloha,


Hanbyul Jung
Assistant Editor
Reading in a Foreign Language

http://nflrc.hawaii.edu/rfl
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