This study evaluated how comic books and graphic novels enhanced the reading comprehension of the students enrolled in the intermediate reading course at Western Pennsylvania Community College. The three research questions are: (1) How can a developmental reading course make use of comics as a learning tool? (2) What impact does reading comics…

This study investigated the effect of dialogue journal writing on the writing quality, reading comprehension, and writing apprehension of college freshmen studying English-as-a-Foreign-Language (EFL) in a Korean university. Subjects were 207 students in four intact reading sections of a freshman English reading course. For a 10-week period,…

The 2007 meeting of the English Think Tank published here represents a sample of the English Think Tank V presentations. In reading these papers one is struck by the imagination and expertise possessed by so many members in the field. The paper topics fall roughly into four categories--assessment, diversity, literacy, and technology. This…