IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/asi/ijells/v5y2016i2p111-117id583.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Effect of Digital Reading on Comprehension of English Prose Texts in EFL/ESL Contexts

Author

Listed:
  • Shirin Shafiei Ebrahimi

Abstract

This study examines the effect of digital reading on reading comprehension of English short prose texts of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) and English as a Second Language (ESL) college students. 60 ESL participants with 30 students in the experimental group and 30 students in the control group plus 60 EFL participants with 30 students in the experimental group and 30 students in the control group participated in this study. They were asked to read 10 short literary prose texts to check their reading comprehension. The findings revealed the experimental group which used two methods of print and digital reading had a significantly better reading comprehension on print reading. To triangulate the findings, the qualitative interviews from the respondents confirms the findings from the statistical results. Therefore, integrating digital reading program to literature programs helps students to improve reading comprehension. The conclusion can show that this study adds to our understanding of the effectiveness of print reading on literary reading comprehension.

Suggested Citation

  • Shirin Shafiei Ebrahimi, 2016. "Effect of Digital Reading on Comprehension of English Prose Texts in EFL/ESL Contexts," International Journal of English Language and Literature Studies, Asian Economic and Social Society, vol. 5(2), pages 111-117.
    • Handle: RePEc:asi:ijells:v:5:y:2016:i:2:p:111-117:id:583
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://archive.aessweb.com/index.php/5019/article/view/583/1033
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Must, Olev & Must, Aasa, 2020. "No decline in the principle-based thought of 9-year-old schoolchildren between 1991 and 2001," Intelligence, Elsevier, vol. 80(C).

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:asi:ijells:v:5:y:2016:i:2:p:111-117:id:583. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Robert Allen (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://archive.aessweb.com/index.php/5019/ .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.