■ This paper presents three consecutive studies on the effect of extensive reading on the development of reading and vocabulary for Taiwanese university nonEnglish majors. Each study used a different approach, with subsequent studies adjusting the methodology in response to the results of the previous year. These results confirm other findings, using different subjects in other countries, that ...

This quasi-experimental study aims to investigate the effects of Sustained Silent Reading (SSR), Assisted Repeated (ARR), and Traditional (TR) instructions integrated into an EFL reading program on comprehension, silent rate, motivation, attitudes toward reading, by also addressing potential effect proficiency level. Adopting a mixed-method pretest-posttest research design, this 10-week was con...

Aloud reading of novel words is achieved by phonological decoding, a process in which grapheme-to-phoneme conversion rules are applied to "sound out" a word's spoken representation. Numerous brain imaging studies have examined the neural bases of phonological decoding by contrasting pseudoword (pronounceable nonwords) to real word reading. However, only a few investigations have examined pseudo...

Words that are read aloud are more memorable than words that are read silently. The boundaries of this production effect (MacLeod, Gopie, Hourihan, Neary, & Ozubko, Journal of experimental psychology: learning, memory, and cognition, 36, 671-685, 2010) have been found to extend beyond speech. MacLeod and colleagues demonstrated that mouthing also facilitates memory, leading them to speculate th...