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The October 2016 issue of Reading in a Foreign Language is available online at http://nflrc.hawaii.edu/rfl/October2016/

This issue of RFL begins as a special issue, “Celebrating Linguistically Diverse Learners of St. Louis: Responsive Research and Practice for Literacy,” edited by Cindy Brantmeier. It features three articles.

The first article, by Brevik, Olsen & Hellefkjaer, examines the timely and important topic of reading assessment with adolescents at the secondary level. The second article, by Endley, examines proficiency levels and strategy use with 12 Arabic speakers studying English at a university. The last article, by Zhao, Guo, Biales and Olszewski, investigates several factors of individual learner differences as predictors of L2 incidental vocabulary acquisition.

In addition, there are two regular articles. In the first, Eun Young Jeon and Richard Day present their results of a meta-analysis of the impact of extensive reading on reading proficiency. This is followed by Kate Paesani’s report of her investigation of reading-writing connections to determine if these literacy practices facilitated students’ understanding and use of resources such as grammar, vocabulary, genre, and style.

Tianxu Chen reviews Second Language Reading: Cognitive and Psycholinguistic Perspectives. Then there is a special issue discussion piece by Elizabeth Thorne-Wallington. There are three regular discussion pieces, by Tom Cobb, Paul Nation, and Jeff McQuillan. This issue concludes with the valuable October feature, Readings on L2 reading: Publications in other venues 2015-2016.