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The April 2015 issue of Reading in a Foreign Language, a twice-annual free online publication from our sister LRC the National Foreign Language Resource Center, is now available at http://nflrc.hawaii.edu/rfl/April2015/ In this issue:

Effects of forward and backward contextual elaboration on lexical inferences: Evidence from a semantic relatedness judgment task
Akira Hamada

Reading and learning from L2 text: Effects of reading goal, topic familiarity, and language proficiency
Yukie Horiba & Keiko Fukaya

First language grapheme-phoneme transparency effects in adult second-language learning
Elizabeth Ijalba & Loraine K. Obler

Language learner strategy by Chinese-speaking EFL readers when comprehending familiar and unfamiliar texts
Jia-Ying Lee

The influence of translation on reading amount, proficiency, and speed in extensive reading
Nobuko Sakurai

The issue also includes reviews and a discussion of the question “What constitutes extensive reading?”

Access the issue at http://nflrc.hawaii.edu/rfl/April2015/