A refereed online journal focusing on second and foreign language reading and literacy

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Volume 16, Number 2
September 2016
Managing Editor John I. Liontas University of South Florida
Executive Editor
Founding Editor Meena Singhal Long Beach City College
Feature Articles
Assessing Student Attitudes Toward Graded Readers, MReader and the MReader Challenge
1-19
Catherine Cheetham, Alan Harper, Melody Elliott, and Mika Ito
Encouraging ESL/EFL Reading Among Lower Proficiency Students at the Tertiary Level: The Use of Graded Readers
20-36
Debbita Tan Ai Lin, Ambigapathy Pandian, and Paramaswari Jaganathan
Returning to Reading: An Online Course in French offers a Snapshot of L2 Reading Habits and Trends
37-47
Carolyn Gascoigne and Juliette Parnell
Emotional Intelligence as the Predictor of Pragmatic Competence: A Closer Look at Iranian EFL Learners’ Politeness Strategies
48-63
Masoumeh Ahmadi Shirazi and Seyed Mohammad Mousavi Nadoushani
Factors that Facilitate or Hinder the Use of Computer-Assisted Reading in the L2 Reading Classroom
64-80
Khalid Al-Seghayer
The Effects of Explicit Word Recognition Training on Japanese EFL Learners
81-97
Lance Burrows and Michael Holsworth
How do Learners of Japanese Read Texts When They Use Online Pop-up Dictionaries?
98-109
Mitsue Tabata-Sandom
Evaluating L2 Readers’ Previewing Strategies Using Eye Tracking
110-130
Caleb Prichard and Andrew Atkins
A Bone of Contention: Teacher Beliefs on the Pedagogical Value of English Idioms for Second Language Learners
131-143
Kris Ramonda
English as a Lingua Franca: Reflections on ELF-Related Issues by Pre-Service English Language Teachers in Turkey
144-161
Esma Biricik Deniz, Yonca Özkan, and Yasemin Bayyurt
Taxonomies in L1 and L2 Reading Strategies: A Critical Review of Issues Surrounding Strategy-use Definitions and Classifications in Previous Think-aloud Research
162-226
Tarek A. Alkhaleefah
The Role of Oral Reading Fluency in ESL Reading Comprehension among Learners of Different First Language Backgrounds
227-242
Xiangying Jiang
Book Reviews
Mobile Learning: Languages, Literacies and Cultures: New Language Learning and Teaching Environments
243-245
Gidaa Alamry
A Short Course in Teaching Reading: Practical Techniques for Building Reading Power
246-248
Hakan Demiröz
Becoming a Language Teacher: A Practical Guide to Second Language Learning and Teaching
249-251
Alia Hadid
Meaning Making in Text: Multimodal and Multilingual Functional Perspectives
252-254
Patrick Mannion
Global Englishes
255-256
Kylie Ross
Immigrant Children in Transcultural Spaces: Language, Learning, and Love
257-259
Natalia Ward
Software Reviews
CANVAS
260-262
Alia Hadid
ScriptoPro
263-266
Ramona Kreis