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.