Reading printed versus online texts. A study of EFL learners strategic reading behavior
- Autores: Ester Usó Juan, María Noelia Ruiz Madrid
- Localización: IJES: international journal of English studies, ISSN 1578-7044, Vol. 9, Nº. 2, 2009 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Approaches to English as a Foreign Language Reading Comprehension: Research and Pedagogy), págs. 59-79
- Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
With the development of the WWW and Internet, hyperreading has become an issue for discussion in the educational field and more specifically in the field of English as a second or foreign language. Yet, very little is known about its nature concerning the reading process. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is twofold: first, to examine whether the hypertextual medium affects learners� reading comprehension and, second, to analyze learners� use of strategies in hard copy and online reading contexts. Fifty university students from the discipline of Tourism read a research article in English taken from an online journal. Half the students (n = 25) read it in a printed format and the other half (n = 25) read it in its online version. Materials included an English academic reading test to measure learners� comprehension of the academic passage and a reading strategy questionnaire to determine which strategies were employed by students. Statistical analyses revealed that the hypertextual medium 1) did not affect learners� overall reading comprehension, and 2) promoted the use of reading strategies, including both top-down and bottom-up strategies. These results are discussed and suggestions for further research are given.
