Discussions of digital technologies in education should take into consideration the role analogue – such as print books especially when it comes to reading. Empirical research (Delgado et al., 2018; Kong Clinton, 2019; Singer & Alexander, 2017) shows that paper supports comprehension better than screens, reading longer and more complex texts. PISA 2019 performance has declined many countries, t...

This study investigated how electronic media impact youth’s leisure-time reading at different academic levels. One hundred two school librarians participated in an online survey. These respondents reported that playing computer games, watching TV, and surfing the Internet compete with reading. Primary school librarians mainly agreed with the impact of TV and computer games, but not with that of...

Image searches are now crucial for obtaining information, constructing knowledge, and building successful educational outcomes. We investigated how reading ability and Internet experience influence keyword-based image search behaviors and performance. We categorized 58 junior-high-school students into four groups of high/low reading ability and frequent/infrequent Internet usage. Participants u...

We are developing a web-search application to locate and evaluate potential reading material on the internet. Our application, Read-X, performs a keyword search of the internet, analyzes the readability of text from each resulting website and classifies the text according to theme. This tool will be useful to adolescent and adult low-level reading students who face, among other challenges, a tr...

Approximately 30% of the Danish population has severe problems in reading everyday text. In the light of the increasing amount of text available on the Internet this poses a democratic challenge to ensure “equal access” to information. The Talking Internet service Access For All (AFA) offers a free Internet-based tool for reading aloud any marked text with a synthetic voice. The only requiremen...

objective: the objective of this study was to assess the prevalence of addiction to the internet, computer games, dvd, and video and its relationship to anxiety and depression in a sample of iranian high school students. methods: in this cross-sectional study 1020 high school students (males and females) were selected randomly from different areas of shiraz city in southern iran. they were inte...

The present study compares the performance of two TEFL reading classes: one taking place in a regular classroom and the other held in a computer lab, with the learners practicing reading online. The results of an independent samples t-test showed that the difference between the learners’ scores on their reading comprehension post-tests and pretests did not differ statistically significantly fro...