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| Title | October 2008 Issue of Reading in a Foreign Language |
| Body | The October 2008 issue (Volume 20, 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/October2008 This issue is a special issue on reading and vocabulary, guest-edited by Rob Waring. In this issue, Ronan Brown, Rob Waring, and Sangrawee Donkaewbua present the results of their study on incidental vocabulary acquisition from reading, reading-while-listening, and listening to stories. Diana Pulido and David Z. Hambrick report on their study that models individual differences in second language reading and vocabulary development via structural equation modeling. Soo-Ok Kweon and Hae-Ri Kim examine incidental vocabulary acquisition in extensive reading by looking at the relationship among amount of incidental vocabulary acquisition, proportion of vocabulary retention, and effect of occurrence frequency and word classes. Caleb Prichard evaluates the dictionary use of Japanese university students to determine how selective they are when reading nonfiction English texts for general comprehension. Stuart Webb presents his study that addresses the effects of context on incidental vocabulary learning. Stephen Alessi and Angelique Dwyer contrasts vocabulary assistance before and during reading. The feature, “Readings on L2 Reading: Publications in Other Venues,” presents references through 2007-2008. Averil Coxhead, Margaret Gari, and Matella Urakowi review Inside Reading: The Academic Word List in Context, by Cheryl Boyd Zimmerman (Series Editor.). Kyae-Sung Park reviews Academic Reading (5th ed.), edited by Kathleen T. McWhorter. Sue Ollerhead reviews Teaching Second Language Reading, by Thom Hudson. 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 . |
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