TY - GEN
T1 - Effects of incorporating a topic-scanning guiding mechanism in e-books on efl reading comprehension, learning perceptions, and reading behaviors
AU - Chen, Mei Rong Alice
AU - Ogata, Hiroaki
AU - Hwang, Gwo Jen
AU - Lin, Yihsuan Diana
AU - Akçapınar, Gökhan
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd 2020.
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - Reading academic textbooks in English has been an uneasy task for non-native English students. In addition, e-books are gradually popular across educational contexts. Previous studies indicated that students generally could not comprehend texts well on screen, so this study proposed a topic-scanning guiding mechanism with e-books to support EFL students reading comprehension from e-books. This paper aims to investigate the effects of an e-book on EFL students’ reading comprehension, learning perceptions, and reading behaviors in EFL freshman reading the course, incorporating a topic-scanning guiding mechanism with the e-book. A quasi-experiment with a pretest-posttest design was conducted in a university freshmen English course, 50 students were assigned as the experiential group, and 46 students were in the control group. Findings from this study would further contribute to students’ learning perceptions and reading behavior analysis on designing e-book system to improve their reading competence.
AB - Reading academic textbooks in English has been an uneasy task for non-native English students. In addition, e-books are gradually popular across educational contexts. Previous studies indicated that students generally could not comprehend texts well on screen, so this study proposed a topic-scanning guiding mechanism with e-books to support EFL students reading comprehension from e-books. This paper aims to investigate the effects of an e-book on EFL students’ reading comprehension, learning perceptions, and reading behaviors in EFL freshman reading the course, incorporating a topic-scanning guiding mechanism with the e-book. A quasi-experiment with a pretest-posttest design was conducted in a university freshmen English course, 50 students were assigned as the experiential group, and 46 students were in the control group. Findings from this study would further contribute to students’ learning perceptions and reading behavior analysis on designing e-book system to improve their reading competence.
KW - E-book
KW - Learning analytics
KW - Reading comprehension
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85087274373
U2 - 10.1007/978-981-15-6113-9_37
DO - 10.1007/978-981-15-6113-9_37
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85087274373
SN - 9789811561122
T3 - Communications in Computer and Information Science
SP - 323
EP - 332
BT - Cognitive Cities - 2nd International Conference, IC3 2019, Revised Selected Papers
A2 - Shen, Jian
A2 - Chang, Yao-Chung
A2 - Su, Yu-Sheng
A2 - Ogata, Hiroaki
PB - Springer
T2 - 2nd International Cognitive Cities Conference, IC3 2019
Y2 - 3 September 2019 through 6 September 2019
ER -