dependence on computers and internet has given birth to digital literacy. however, research into its influences on the reading process is still in its infancy. to fill the gap, this study was designed to investigate the ways in which text presentation mode (paper vs. digital) affects reading comprehension, as well as reading attitudes. to this end, a sample of 30 male and female english major s...

Recently, e-learning systems have begun to be used in companies and education institutions. The spread of e-learning is mainly due to development of the learning management system (LMS), which includes SCORM and WebCT. Therefore, the introduction of learning the web digital web digital texts have become much simpler. The increase of contents of the web digital texts has realized a wider range o...

Title of Document: HACKING LITERATURE: READING ANALOG TEXTS IN A DIGITAL AGE Aaron Dinin, Doctor of Philosophy, 2014 Directed By: Professor Martha Nell Smith, Department of English Evangelists of the digital age, in the immediacy of its adolescence, often describe digital technologies as “revolutionary” (e.g. “the digital revolution”) and as having a world-changing impact on human cultural inte...

Unlike many well established approaches for E-Learning on science fields, there isn’t a commonly accepted approach of E-Learning on humanities fields, especially language and literature. Because the knowledge on language and literature depends too much on texts, advanced text processing has become a bottleneck for E-Learning on these domains. In traditional learning frameworks learners would ea...