OSORS: how do students read online?
Success in academia is heavily dependent on the ability of students to capitalise the information available at their disposal through improved reading skills. However, the emergence of digital texts has transformed the nature of academic reading as online reading is reported to be different from tra...
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Faculty of Languages and Communication, Universiti Sultan Zainal Abidin
2015
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| author | Jusoh, Zailani Abdullah, Liza |
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| description | Success in academia is heavily dependent on the ability of students to capitalise the information available at their disposal through improved reading skills. However, the emergence of digital texts has transformed the nature of academic reading as online reading is reported to be different from traditional printed reading. As such, this paper, based on a study conducted on students in a particular university in Malaysia, was written to explore the extent of the use of strategies when reading online, in an academic setting and also to investigate whether differences in the use of the strategies between male and female students exist. Findings suggest that students are all users of strategies and gender has no bearing on the type of strategies preferred. One of the implications is that class instruction is needed to create awareness on the importance of varied usage of strategies when reading materials online. |
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| spelling | iium-491732016-05-09T03:26:49Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/49173/ OSORS: how do students read online? Jusoh, Zailani Abdullah, Liza HG1501 Banking Success in academia is heavily dependent on the ability of students to capitalise the information available at their disposal through improved reading skills. However, the emergence of digital texts has transformed the nature of academic reading as online reading is reported to be different from traditional printed reading. As such, this paper, based on a study conducted on students in a particular university in Malaysia, was written to explore the extent of the use of strategies when reading online, in an academic setting and also to investigate whether differences in the use of the strategies between male and female students exist. Findings suggest that students are all users of strategies and gender has no bearing on the type of strategies preferred. One of the implications is that class instruction is needed to create awareness on the importance of varied usage of strategies when reading materials online. Faculty of Languages and Communication, Universiti Sultan Zainal Abidin 2015 Proceeding Paper PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/49173/1/49173.pdf Jusoh, Zailani and Abdullah, Liza (2015) OSORS: how do students read online? In: International Conference on Languages (ICL 2015), 10th-11th Oct. 2015, Kuala Lumpur. https://www.unisza.edu.my/icl2015/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=45&Itemid=349 |
| spellingShingle | HG1501 Banking Jusoh, Zailani Abdullah, Liza OSORS: how do students read online? |
| title | OSORS: how do students read online? |
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| title_short | OSORS: how do students read online? |
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| topic | HG1501 Banking |
| url | http://irep.iium.edu.my/49173/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/49173/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/49173/1/49173.pdf |