E-book reading strategies

Abstract

The text is supported on a research which had as one of its objectives to investigate ebook reading strategies, presented in three formats (html, pdf and lit), about language research. The investigation had as subjects academics of the same area and used a software to capture the readers’ reading procedures. The analysis of the videos made possible to describe and to categorize those procedures and to identify the most used strategies. The results indicated the preference of the readers using the reading strategies of scanning and detailed reading. By analyzing the results it was also possible to indicate the less used reading strategies: self-correction, self-monitoring and self-evaluation.