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from Part IV - Expanding Reading Comprehension Skills
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 September 2022
Chapter 16: Reading in Digital Contexts. Digital reading has now become a major form of information communication worldwide. However, discussions around digital reading, specifically in educational contexts, generate many complexities that need to be unpacked. One form of digital reading (and digital texts) involves texts that are essentially equivalent to print texts, but in a digital medium (e.g., e-books, digital journal articles, and emails). Digital reading also refers to online texts on internet browsers and various apps that involve dynamic “online texts.” Research indicates that reading fixed print texts, versus fixed digital texts, leads to better comprehension and better learning, especially with longer texts. At the same time, important distinctions are reported between reading-comprehension skills when reading “frozen” texts and when reading hyperlinked online texts. Reading online texts, while a modern requirement for information seeking, creates many unique difficulties for reading development. Research on these challenges and efforts to provide effective reading instruction with online texts is addressed. The chapter concludes with implications for instruction.
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