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| Title: Online Reading Comprehension Strategies among General and Special Education Elementary and Middle School Students |
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| Title: | Online Reading Comprehension Strategies among General and Special Education Elementary and Middle School Students |
| Authors: | Chen, Hsin-Yuan |
| Descriptors: | Middle School Students; Reading Comprehension; Cues; Protocol Analysis; Learning Disabilities; Reading Strategies; Search Strategies; Foreign Countries; Internet; Special Education; General Education; Educational Technology; Learning Processes; Teaching Methods; Elementary School Students; Online Searching; Access to Information; Questionnaires; Computer Uses in Education |
| Source: | Online Submission, Ph.D. Dissertation, Michigan State University |
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| Publisher: | N/A |
| Publication Date: | 2009-08-05 |
| Pages: | 192 |
| Pub Types: | Dissertations/Theses - Doctoral Dissertations; Tests/Questionnaires |
| Abstract: | According to government reports, new Internet technologies present readers with new reading opportunities and challenges (National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, 2000; RAND Reading Study Group [RRSG], 2002). However, we are just beginning to understand the specific complexities that Internet text imposes on the reading comprehension process (Coiro, 2003; Leu, Kinzer, Coiro & Cammack, 2004), and we know even less about what these complexities mean for particular student populations who are reading texts in a variety of online environments. The present study purposefully targeted the online reading strategies of upper-elementary and middle school students with and without learning disabilities (LD), in the U.S. and in Taiwan, as they read expository text. Several aspects of the comprehension process were studied, including: (1) Internet navigation strategies and behaviors, (2) students' sensitivity to the organizational structure of hypertexts, (3) online search strategies, and (4) online reading strategies. Data collection involved surveys, structured metacognitive interviews, observations, reading comprehension activities, and online search tasks that were administered to 119 American and Taiwanese students in the fifth and sixth grades. The results suggested that the fifth- and sixth-grade students in this study (1) had opportunities to use computers and use the Internet, but they were not taught sufficient online reading and search strategies; (2) were easily disorientated by the non-linear nature and unfamiliar structure of online texts, especially when Websites or Web pages lacked appropriate tabs or organizational cues for informational passages; (3) did not employ recommended online search strategies; and (4) had weak before-reading strategies, and had difficulty distinguishing before- and during-reading strategies, although their after-reading strategies were often advanced. The study findings suggested that: (1) students needed to be taught necessary online reading and search strategies, and (2) educators and instructional Website designers needed to be mindful of the characteristics of non-linear and unclearly structured text when designing Websites and hypermedia for upper-elementary and middle school students. Six appendices are included: (1) Group questionnaire about online reading comprehension strategies & information search; (2) Individual online reading comprehension; (3) Individual online search-engine task; (4) Individual metacognitive interview about online reading strategies; (5) Think-aloud practice (cited with permission from Dr. Laurie Henry (2003)); and (6) Independent Samples T-tests from American and Taiwanese Fifth- and Sixth-Grade Students' Survey Data. A bibliography is also included. (Contains 13 tables, 13 figures, and 12 footnotes.) |
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| Reference Count: | 0 |
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| Identifiers: | Taiwan |
| Record Type: | Non-Journal |
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| Languages: | English |
| Education Level: | Elementary Education; Grade 5; Grade 6; Middle Schools |
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