Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
INTERACTIVE LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS, 2025 (SSCI, Scopus)
The proliferation of digital sources has significantly transformed learners' reading habits. The widespread use of mobile devices and the availability of online resources has necessitated the development of new reading strategies for online reading, including locating, analyzing, synthesizing, and evaluating. Hence, this study aimed to investigate the online reading strategies employed by language teacher candidates, taking their gender, vocabulary size, and grade level into account. 151 participants in the English Language Teaching (ELT) Program at a state university took part in the study. Each participant completed the "Second Language Online Reading Strategy Inventory," a survey developed and validated by [Li, J. (2020). Development and validation of second language online reading strategies inventory. Computers & Education, 145, 103733], and the findings revealed statistically significant differences in the use of "evaluating strategies" among different grade levels. As for the vocabulary size, the participants with a high vocabulary size were found to use "skimming and evaluating strategies" statistically significantly more than those with a low vocabulary size. The investigation also indicated a significant difference in the "saving strategy" between male and female participants, with female participants demonstrating a tendency to save more digital reading sources than their male counterparts.