Re-Inventing Reading: Rapid multi-channel processing of language accelerates reading.

Learners' Self-efficacy in Reading and its relation to Foreign Language Reading Anxiety and Reading Achievement*

It is well documented that language learning success or failure is influenced by the affective side of the learner. Self-efficacy and anxiety are among the affective factors influencing language learning. This study first explores the relationship between EFL learners' self-efficacy in reading comprehension and their reading anxiety. Secondly, it explores the relationship between EFL learners' ...

What We ' re Reading

Re-reading Silent Spring.

'Department of Surger!., UniversitY Hospital, S-751 85 Lppsala, Sweden: -Department of Cancer Epidemiology, Universitv Hospital, S-751 85 Lppsala, Swteden: 3Department of Pathology, U'niversitv Hospital, S-751 85 Uppsala, Sw eden: 'Department of Statistics, Lppsala L'niversitY, Box 513, S-751 20 Uppsala, Sw eden: 5Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusett...

Oral reading fluency in second language reading

This study investigated the role of oral reading fluency in second language reading. Two hundred and fifty-five high school students in South Korea were assessed on three oral reading fluency (ORF) variables and six other reading predictors. The relationship between ORF and other reading predictors was examined through an exploratory factor analysis (EFA). Next, the contribution of ORF to silen...

(Re)Reading The Origin

Charles Darwin’s 1859 book On the Origin of Species is much referenced, especially in this double anniversary year. But, does anyone still read it? And, if so, what is the book itself like as a text? We have asked biologists from a range of fields — evolutionary biologists, but also geneticists, ecologists, paleontologists and molecular biologists — to re-read (or read) The Origin for Current B...