English Teaching

ELT365 · D179 — Digital texts and screens in the reading classroom

Idea — On-screen reading habits differ from paper: readers skim more, follow links, and miss detail. Teaching reading online means teaching screen-specific strategies.

Example — A student reading a Wikipedia article on a phone may scan the bold text and leave. That behaviour is not the same as reading the source carefully.

Try — Set the same comprehension task on a printed text and its digital version. Compare results. Ask students which felt easier and why.


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