Web-text : perceptions of digital reading skills in the ESL classroom Sutherland-Smith, Wendy 2002, Web-text : perceptions of digital reading skills in the ESL classroom, Prospect, vol. 17, no. 1, April, pp. 55-70. Attached Files Name Description MIMEType Size Downloads sutherlandsmith-web-textperceptions-2002.pdf Published version application/pdf 4.21MB 551 Title Web-text : perceptions of digital reading skills in the ESL classroom Author(s) Sutherland-Smith, Wendy orcid.org/0000-0003-4589-9323 Journal name Prospect Volume number 17 Issue number 1 Season April Start page 55 End page 70 Publisher National Centre for English Language Teaching and Research Place of publication Sydney, N. S. W. Publication date 2002 ISSN 0814-7094 Summary New strategies required in Web reading and digital writing cause previous notions of literacy to be reshaped and compel teachers to rethink classroom reading practice. The aim of this paper is to compare student perceptions of reading skills needed in the traditional print- text mode with the skills needed to read and gather information on the Web. Do students perceive reading as different on the Web? Are there implications for reading classroom teachers? This research was conducted in a medium-sized suburban government primary school of 580 students from 72 different countries. The participants were 48 students in two grade-six classes, with a focus on 12 English as second language (ESL) students' responses. These students came from Taiwan, China, India, Malaysia, Poland and Bhutan. The study was replicated in an adult ELICOS language centre environment with the authors own class of 18 students from China, Indonesia, Korea, Taiwan, Thailand and Japan. Different student expectations of Web-text compared to paper-text were evident. This research adds to our constantly evolving notions of literacy embracing technology and can be applied to primary, secondary and tertiary levels of ESL teaching practice. Language eng Field of Research 130207 LOTE, ESL and TESOL Curriculum and Pedagogy (excl Maori) Socio Economic Objective 930199 Learner and Learning not elsewhere classified HERDC Research category C1.1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal Copyright notice ©2002, National Centre for English Language Teaching and Research Free to Read? Yes Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30031174 Document type: Journal Article Collections: Faculty of Arts and Education Institute of Teaching and Learning Higher Education Research Group Open Access Collection Related Links Link Description Connect to published version (restricted access) Go to link with your DU access privileges     Unless expressly stated otherwise, the copyright for items in DRO is owned by the author, with all rights reserved. Every reasonable effort has been made to ensure that permission has been obtained for items included in DRO. If you believe that your rights have been infringed by this repository, please contact drosupport@deakin.edu.au. Versions Version Filter Type Mon, 15 Nov 2010, 08:24:56 EST Tue, 21 Dec 2010, 13:29:18 EST Tue, 21 Dec 2010, 13:30:18 EST Thu, 17 Feb 2011, 10:51:34 EST Mon, 23 Jan 2012, 14:11:33 EST Tue, 05 Dec 2017, 10:44:30 EST Mon, 22 Jan 2018, 14:00:13 EST Fri, 07 Sep 2018, 18:03:44 EST Filtered Full Citation counts:   Cited 0 times in TR Web of Science Cited 0 times in Scopus Search Google Scholar Access Statistics: 1705 Abstract Views, 551 File Downloads  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Mon, 15 Nov 2010, 08:24:56 EST