Digital reading and reading competence: the influence in the Z Generation from the Dominican Republic.
Most Latin American countries are focused upon improving learning quality by providing schools with technological resources,as if their sole presence was enough to develop 21st Century skills. Digital reading is not an end in itself; it is a tool that a userselects, depending on the desired purpose...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2017 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universidad de Sevilla (US) |
| Repositorio: | idUS. Depósito de Investigación de la Universidad de Sevilla |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:idus.us.es:11441/87632 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://hdl.handle.net/11441/87632 https://doi.org/10.3916/C52-2017-10 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Internet Lectura digital Competencia lectora Neoanalfabetos Brecha digital Genaración Z Redes sociales Educación Secundaria |
| Sumario: | Most Latin American countries are focused upon improving learning quality by providing schools with technological resources,as if their sole presence was enough to develop 21st Century skills. Digital reading is not an end in itself; it is a tool that a userselects, depending on the desired purpose and uses it in specific contexts. Adolescents access Internet with at least four purposes:academic, recreational, socialization and communication. This study describes said purposes in adolescents from the DominicanRepublic and relates them to their reading literacy proficiency level in two educational contexts: public and private schools. Thesample group included 382 students in their fourth year of secondary school (10th grade). Two instruments were used: CoLeP,based on texts from PISA, and a Scale to measure reading frequency, which classifies the four reading purposes in two formats:printed and digital. The conclusion is that most students access and use the Internet for academic purposes, regardless of the edu-cational sector. Nevertheless, reading literacy proficiency differs significantly with students from public schools being in lowerlevels. This minimizes the opportunities of the most vulnerable social sectors producing reading illiterates that have high economiccosts for the nation. |
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