"It's easier to read on the Internet--you just click on what you want to read..."

  • Authors:

  • Maria Rasmusson;Monica Eklund

  • Affiliations:

  • The Department of Education, Mid Sweden University, Härnösand, Sweden SE-871 88;Halmstad University, Halmstad, Sweden SE-301 18

  • Venue:
  • Education and Information Technologies
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

Today's youth spend a lot of time on the Internet where they meet a multimodal world. The focus in the present study has been on the skills and abilities needed for on-line reading. This study explores reading on the Internet, with pairs of Swedish students aged 10 and 15. The pairs completed tasks on the Internet and these sessions were video-taped. Five main categories of skills and abilities were found: traditional literacy, multimodal literacy, path-finding, IT abilities, and information abilities. The results support earlier research in the field at large, and also add to the literature on on-line reading, in areas such as the crucial need for the ability to spell and knowing web address conventions in English.