Özet:

The concept of reading has emerged in a new shape called screen reading, showing changes throughout the ages. This review-designed research, supported by correlation design, took into account the importance of reading and this new kind of reading, has tried to find and compare students’ general, mother-language and foreign-language reading material choices and the levels of understanding of mother-language and foreign-language of students reading printed or electronic materials. A survey and understanding test was implemented for the purpose of gathering information. Research results showed that students read more electronic materials than printed materials. In particular, it has been observed that social networks and internet pages (internet diaries) have a high reading rate and there is no understanding difference between students reading different types of materials. Considering that students read more electronic materials and that there is no lack of understanding among students reading such materials, the use of such materials as a source of lessons in classes is thought to support success by increasing the student motivation in language education and, therefore, it is thought to be useful especially for foreign language teachers to use original electronic materials in classes.

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