Article Journal - Method

Article Journal - Method

Title : Reading Printed versus Online Texts. A Study of EFL Learners’ Strategic Reading Behavior
Author : Esther Uso-Juan & M Noelia Ruiz Madrid


In method section, this journal tells about the participant, materials, and also collecting and resulting the data.
1. Participant
First off, the participant. The participant for this journal was 154 first- and second-year student of Universität Jaume I in Castellon, Spain. All student were study about EAP course.
2. Materials
Second, there is materials. So, materials for the present study was:
a. EAP Reading Test
All of the participant took a discipline-related EAP reading test which contained their subject matter to measure learners’ reading comprehension both printed and non-printed (pdf format).
b. Reading Strategy Questionnaire
It can determine the sort of strategies that can be used by student for read a passage on screen and printed.

3. Data collection Procedures
The experiment was held in 2 session. In the first session, the student was introduced to the first seven strategies presented. Both session the teacher included a discussion on the nature of strategic reading and provided explicit instruction on how and when reader could use the particular strategy.
4. Scoring Procedures
The scoring scale for the reading test was between 0-100 points. The two researchers independently coded the second reading comprehension task. If there is any disagreements were resolved through discussion.
5. Statistical Analysis
In statistical analysis, the author use the SPSS (Statistical Package for Social Science) to analyze the result.

Article Journal - Introduction

Article Journal - Introduction

Title : Reading Printed versus Online Texts. A Study of EFL Learners’ Strategic Reading Behavior
Author : Esther Uso-Juan & M Noelia Ruiz Madrid

In the introduction, Esther Uso-Juan and M Noelia Ruiz Madrid talking about the strategies for hyperreading. It also provide the reader a little bit of hyperreading and how it become an issue in educational field more specifically in the field of ESL and EFL. It also contain researchers opinion such as Burbules, 1996; Hanson-Smith, 2003; Kasper, 2003; and Villanueva, 2008. They considered that hyperreading is a reading practice that different to the reading in print. However, some researchers also warn that hyperreading also has many disadvantages for readers, and it derived from the medium itself.

Journal Review : Reading Printed versus Online Texts. A Study of EFL Learners’ Strategic Reading Behavior

Reading Printed versus Online Texts. A Study of EFL Learners’
Strategic Reading Behavior


With the development of computers and internet, it encouraging the human lifestyle today to become always online. Today all human needs can be found online, including food, cloth, gadget, home appliances, etc. Not only human needs, but internet also  provide entertainment. Book and Journal can be found on the internet. When we surf the Internet, sometimes we found an interesting article or journal but it so long, and make use too lazy to read it. But worry not! In this journal that i found reading long article or journal can be easy by using a method called hyper reading.

This journal talked about how well hyper reading can be applied to people and also making a questionnaire about does it affect learners’ EAP reading comprehension or not. The component of this journal is :
1. Abstract.
2. Keyword
3. Introduction
    a. Strategies for Hyper Reading
    b. Purpose of the present study
4. Method
    a. Participants
    b. Materials
      • EAP Reading Test
      • Reading strategy questionnaire
      • Data collection procedures
      • Scoring procedures
      • Statistical analysis
5. Results
    a. Effect of the hypertextual medium on reading comprehension
    b. Effect of the the hypertextual medium on learners’ use of strategies
6. Discussion
    a. Effect of the hypertextual medium on reading comprehension
    b. Effect of the the hypertextual medium on learners’ use of strategies
7. Conclusion
8. Acknowledgements
9. References

Title : Reading Printed versus Online Texts. A Study of EFL Learners’
Strategic Reading Behavior
Author : ESTHER USÓ-JUAN, Mª NOELIA RUIZ-MADRID
Web : https://revistas.um.es/ijes/article/view/90751/87551