Volume 18, No. 2
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Item type: Item , Craig Chaudron: In Memoriam(University of Hawaii National Foreign Language Resource Center, 2006-10) Hudson, ThomItem type: Item , From the Editors(University of Hawaii National Foreign Language Resource Center, 2006-10) RFL StaffItem type: Item , Teaching Word Meanings by Steven A. Stahl & William E. Nagy(University of Hawaii National Foreign Language Resource Center, 2006-10) Nation, PaulItem type: Item , The Science of Reading: A Handbook by Margaret Snowling & Charles Hume (Eds.)(University of Hawaii National Foreign Language Resource Center, 2006-10) Malcolm, DianeItem type: Item , Mediating Ideology in Text and Image: Ten Critical Studies by Inger Lassen, Jeanne Strunck, & Torben Vestergaard (Eds.)(University of Hawaii National Foreign Language Resource Center, 2006-10) Jones, AlanItem type: Item , Literature in Language Education by Geoff Hall(University of Hawaii National Foreign Language Resource Center, 2006-10) Duncan, SamItem type: Item , Readings on L2 Reading: Publications in other Venues: 2005-2006(University of Hawaii National Foreign Language Resource Center, 2006-10) Brantmeier, CindyItem type: Item , Just taking notes is not enough(University of Hawaii National Foreign Language Resource Center, 2006-10) Ma, Jee HyunItem type: Item , From paragraphs to patterns: Ablocutionary value in autobiography(University of Hawaii National Foreign Language Resource Center, 2006-10) Edge, JulianItem type: Item , A Reprint of Reading to take notes and to summarize: A classroom procedure.(University of Hawaii National Foreign Language Resource Center, 2006-10) Edge, JulianA communicative classroom procedure is described (arising out of work done at Istanbul and BoThis is a special characterazici Universities), designed to give students initial practice in the skill of extracting points from a written text in order to make notes on, and to summarise that text. Using various modes of classroom interaction, the procedure gives the students practice in the recognition, production and evaluation of paragraph summaries in note form. As well as describing the procedure, the article presents a piece of material that has been used with several groups of undergraduate and adult students.Item type: Item , Text selection and frequency: Comments on Pigada and Schmitt (2006)(University of Hawaii National Foreign Language Resource Center, 2006-10) Taylor, AlanItem type: Item , Toward a multicomponent model of interest and L2 reading: Sources of interest, perceived situational interest, and comprehension(University of Hawaii National Foreign Language Resource Center, 2006-10) Brantmeier, CindyWith 104 advanced second language (L2) readers, this investigation seeks to construct a multicomponent model of interest and L2 reading. Sources of interest (SI) refer to variables that induce feelings of interest in a text. Perceived interest (PI) refers to the feeling of interest itself (Schraw, Bruning, & Svoboda, 1995). A factor analysis revealed the following 5 SI in order of variance: (1) cohesion (31%), (2) prior knowledge (13%), (3) engagement (12%), (4) ease of recollection (10%), and (5) emotiveness (6%). PI accounted for 68% of the total sample variation. Of the 5 factors on the SI questionnaire, three were uniquely related to PI: cohesion, engagement, and ease of recollection. PI was related to sentence completion items and multiple choice items, but not recall. Five factors from the SI questionnaire were regressed on comprehension scores after first removing the variance explained by perceived interest. Ease of recollection positively related to all 3 comprehension tasks. Findings provide a construct of interest for L2 reading and serve as an attempt to develop an instrument to assess different sources of interest in L2 reading. A preliminary understanding of these dimensions of interest as predictors of L2 reading comprehension is presented.