Utilizing Electronic Reading Device （Kindle） in English as Foreign Language Reading Class  

作　　者：Min-Hsun Chiang 

机构地区：[1]Tunghai University, Taichung, Taiwan

出　　处：《Sino-US English Teaching》2016年第4期233-244,共12页中美英语教学（英文版）

摘　　要：With the evolutionary change in information and communication technologies （ICT）, the definition of literacy has undergone substantial change to include the skills and strategies required to successfully adapt to the rapidly changing ICT contexts. This new definition presents an urgent need to acknowledge the gap between the types of reading experiences students come across at school and those they regularly practice outside the school. One way to bridge such gap is to expand the reading instruction to incorporate electronic reading device, like Kindle, to engage students in electronic reading. Many e-books feature multimodal functionalities, including audio, video, hyperlinks, and interactive tools. Research on this form of reading is still in its infancy in spite of some positive prospects for fostering literacy development and reading comprehension. Therefore, adopting a mixed method approach with 36 college freshmen in central Taiwan, the current study intended to fill in the void by investigating any difference in readers＇ reading comprehension and reading motivation, between the Kindle group and the print-based group. The results indicate that embedding aspects of technology into a traditional reading instruction boosted the participants＇ motivation to read. Nevertheless, the novelty-driven enthusiasm for electronic reading might not sustain students＇ reading motivation long enough to cultivate long-lasting reading habits. The results indicate that there was no significant difference in reading comprehension between two groups. Implications for utilizing electronic readers in EFL classes are also provided.

关 键 词：electronic book （e-book） extensive reading EFL reading instruction reading comprehension reading motivation 

分 类 号：TP317[自动化与计算机技术—计算机软件与理论] H31[自动化与计算机技术—计算机科学与技术]