Myth or Fact?
Six real claims about reading and language learning. Say myth or fact. You have 3 lives.
Built straight from the "Myth or Fact? Test What You Know" quiz on the Reading Club site, citations included.
Full reference list (10 sources)
- Beglar, D., & Hunt, A. (2014). Pleasure reading and reading rate gains. Reading in a Foreign Language, 26(1), 29-48.
- Day, R. R., & Bamford, J. (1998). Extensive reading in the second language classroom. Cambridge University Press.
- Grabe, W. (2009). Reading in a second language: Moving from theory to practice. Cambridge University Press.
- Krashen, S. (2013). Second language acquisition: Theory, applications, and some conjectures. Cambridge University Press.
- Lee, J. (2002). The incidental acquisition of Spanish. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 24, 55-80.
- Nation, I. S. P. (2001). Learning vocabulary in another language. Cambridge University Press.
- Rodrigo, V. (2006). The amount of input matters: Incidental acquisition of grammar through listening and reading. The International Journal of Foreign Language Teaching, 2(1), 10-13.
- Rodrigo, V. (2024). Expanding insights of vocabulary knowledge, metacognitive knowledge, and reading. Reading in a Foreign Language, 37(1), 1-14.
- Tan, Y. T. (2001). Effective strategies to get teenagers hooked on reading. Extensive Reading World Congress Proceedings.
- Webb, S., Pellicer-Sánchez, A., & Wang, A. (2025). Lexical coverage and reading comprehension revisited. Reading in a Foreign Language, 37(1), 1-21.