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A holistic analysis of reading articles in the Journal of English Language & Literature Teaching

This study is to analyze reading research articles published in ETAK Journal and to suggest a way of developmental alternative in the future. The subjects of analysis were 57 articles published from vol. 1 to vol. 19(3) for 18 years (1995-2013). The criteria of analysis are like the following: (ⅰ) research theme; (ⅱ) research participants; (ⅲ) research method; (ⅳ) language(used in the article) and frequency of an individual author. The result of the theme analysis showed that most of the research articles were about learning strategies and activities of teaching and learning (84%) while the rest of them were about text analysis (9%), using multimedia (5%) and testing (2%). As for the research method, quantitative research occupied the predominant ratio (56%) opposed to qualitative research (26%) and theoretical research (9%). In addition, the participants of the research were overduely lateralized to college students. The number of articles written in English was almost three times more than in Korean. Thus, ongoing issues of ETAK Journal need to produce authoritative articles of various research themes, methods and participants, which will contribute to English teaching and learning in Korea.