Abstract
With the information influx from the hypermedia environment, queries have been made on the reading landscape, markedly related to college and adult readers, as they are perceived to have limited experience with the hypermedia environment. This environment calls on new literacies for a reader to cope with reading tasks inherent to its features. In this context, new challenges have been posed regarding online reading strategies of college and adult readers. With the dearth of literature about how college and adult readers navigate their way in their reading tasks in the hypermedia environment, this paper described their strategies in reading. The information gathered from the studies conducted before can contribute to the present plight of our readers who need to navigate their way through reading in a hypermedia environment. Eight studies that met the criteria on the variables of the study were included. The studies revealed the following reading strategies of college and adult readers: global, problem-solving, local, cognitive and metacognitive, and navigation strategies. This evidenced that print-based reading strategies are basics on which reading strategies in the hypermedia environment are built for strategic readers to be successful in their online reading tasks.
Highlights
The proliferation of the use of technology has changed the reading landscape
The hypertext consumption of readers heightened as readers grapple to respond to the challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic, and such response paved to many challenges especially to those who are not accustomed to reading in a hypermedia environment (Lindner, Clemons, Thoron, & Lindner, 2020)
With the dearth of literature that explores the reading strategies that the reader in the hypermedia environment employ (Coiro, 2003), this paper aims to synthesize these works of literature and hopes to raise awareness on the online reading strategies that college and adult readers use
Summary
The proliferation of the use of technology has changed the reading landscape. Contrary to the times before hypermedia has invaded the literacy world, today, it is easier to retrieve information; instead, the challenge lies in distilling meaning (Bulger, 2006). “The new literacies include the skills, strategies, and insights necessary to successfully exploit the rapidly changing information and communication technologies that continuously emerge in our world”. The hypertext consumption of readers heightened as readers grapple to respond to the challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic, and such response paved to many challenges especially to those who are not accustomed to reading in a hypermedia environment (Lindner, Clemons, Thoron, & Lindner, 2020). It is essential that readers possess strategies to maximize the technology so as to strategically make sense of texts the Internet has afforded them
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