Screen reading vs book reading among university students: a review of selected paper

The article aims to review and explore the research conducted by Tim Vandenhoek entitled “Screen Reading Habits among University Students” that was published in 2013, it tries to understand how students behave in reading books, whether screen reading or book reading from the author's perspective. The populations were 630 students University of Limerick, Ireland. Online surveys were conducted by sending a number of questions about reading habits to students by sending to e-mail. The survey consisted of 10 questions 2 questions related to the age and background of the linguistic respondents and 8 questions related to the habit of reading the screen and paper. He found that the students tend to read books rather than reading screens, there were many students who didn’t not know how to use digital annotations on computers, this was evidenced by as many as 87% of students highlighted and underlined a point when reading a book, and 29% students highlighted and underlined points when reading the screen. With the growth of tablet computers and e-readers increasing rapidly, the limitations of students in reading the screen will hinder students from following technological progress. Therefore, the role of educators in providing training in computer use and how to use digital annotations is very important, it can aim to facilitate students in reading the screen to keep up with technological progress