Use of Glosses for Reading with Computers by Turkish Pre-Service English Language Teachers

The purpose of the study is to investigate dictionary and glossary use pre-service English language teachers while reading on computer. participants were 26 first- second-year at a large Turkish public university. In order explore their clicking gloss-use behavior reading, web page with pop-up window was designed, screen capture tool used record participants' actions. findings suggested that usually careful about selection when they looking up word with. However, results showed discrepancy between words claimed be known actually checked glossed texts. also confirmed learners' tendency for more look-ups glosses mentioned in literature.