微信阅读与纸质阅读的阅读效果比较——客观指标与主观感受的证据

Comparison of Reading Experience on WeChat and Printed Books:Evidence from Subjective Evaluations and Objective Indicators

微信阅读已成为一种普遍的阅读方式,但人们通常认为微信阅读深度不够,微信阅读能否成为辅助性学习方式仍存争议。为解决这一问题,本研究采用被试内设计,比较被试采用微信和纸质两种阅读方式完成说明文和论述文阅读的客观指标和主观感受的差异。结果发现:被试在阅读时长、答题时长及阅读理解准确率三项客观指标上,纸质阅读和微信阅读差异不显著;被试更倾向于选择纸质阅读,认为微信阅读更容易出现跳读、沉浸感较差、浅阅读等主观感受;但被试的客观指标与主观感受之间并无相关。研究结果启示我们:人们对微信阅读的主观感受并不一定能完全反映微信阅读实际的学习效果,微信阅读可以作为一种辅助性的学习方式。

Reading on WeChat is popular among college students in China.However,there is a bias that reading on WeChat is too superficial,and whether reading on WeChat can become a supplementary study method remains controversial.The current study examined participants’ reading experience differences on WeChat and printed books,and revealed that there was no significant difference in terms of reading time,time for answering question and reading comprehension accuracy.But participants reported that they preferred to reading via printed books and they believed that reading on WeChat was more for quick reading and shallow reading with lesser degree of immersion.However,the correlation between reaction time or accuracy and participants’ evaluation was not significant.It implied that reading on WeChat could be used as a supplementary learning method for education.