In the age of Information technology, online learning environment and its visual and audio applications require new literacy for learners and educators. According to this new literacy perspective, reading comprehensio...In the age of Information technology, online learning environment and its visual and audio applications require new literacy for learners and educators. According to this new literacy perspective, reading comprehension becomes an important issue to study （Cairo, 2003）. The present study investigates metacognitive reading strategies used by low-proficient EFL （English as a Foreign Language） learners while reading paper-based documents and hypertext documents for general comprehension. The author of the paper tries to find whether these strategies are essentially different from each other. Data were collected from 32 students through SORS （Survey of Reading Strategies） and OSORS （Online Survey of Reading Strategies） questionnaires and from five students through think-aloud protocol The result indicates that some of the metacognitive reading strategies observed in hypertext reading are similar to those used in paper-based reading such as ＂using reference materials＂ and ＂translating from English to Turkish＂ However, there are few new emerging strategies while some of them are not observed in paper-based reading展开更多
文摘In the age of Information technology, online learning environment and its visual and audio applications require new literacy for learners and educators. According to this new literacy perspective, reading comprehension becomes an important issue to study （Cairo, 2003）. The present study investigates metacognitive reading strategies used by low-proficient EFL （English as a Foreign Language） learners while reading paper-based documents and hypertext documents for general comprehension. The author of the paper tries to find whether these strategies are essentially different from each other. Data were collected from 32 students through SORS （Survey of Reading Strategies） and OSORS （Online Survey of Reading Strategies） questionnaires and from five students through think-aloud protocol The result indicates that some of the metacognitive reading strategies observed in hypertext reading are similar to those used in paper-based reading such as ＂using reference materials＂ and ＂translating from English to Turkish＂ However, there are few new emerging strategies while some of them are not observed in paper-based reading
