READING FROM SCREEN - ABOUT THE PROBLEM OF DEVELOPING ONLINE EDUCATIONAL TEXTS REGARDING THE SPECIAL WAYS OF ONLINE READING STRATEGIES

Teaching reading and text comprehension have a significant role in every educational system. The whole learning process is based on reading literacy skills which is a problematic field in contemporary digital environment. The constant changes of reading habits, methods and platforms and the strong tendency of reading from screen show that we should rethink the types of text and materials to be read, taught and learnt. There are so many efforts to create modern digital educational materials and new, but still printed textbooks and workbooks all over the world. Even though the embedded links, videos, animations and enormous amount of pictures, these interactive materials are still and mostly based on texts, therefore based on reading. In my paper I will focus on the nature of online educational texts and the connected reading strategies. I claim that on a first level we will have to understand more deeply the online reading mechanisms, if we aim to create and involve online text and teaching materials into educational practices. In order to do this we need to consider the following four points: the phrasing and informativity of online educational texts; the design of online educational texts regarding text comprehension, reading literacy skills and reading strategies; the special technological features and guiders of online texts; and the factors of motivation and engagement during online reading. Methodologically my ongoing research is a secondary research based on the related contemporary literature and research reports of online and digital reading. Developing our theories of online reading and texts comprehension could help to create and design proper educational materials in a long run.