With the advent of digital literacy, fluency in reading from the screen has become a key category in shaping reading proficiency. Furthermore, research focusing on digital reading fluency, especially in the English as Foreign Language (EFL) context, is scarce. Therefore, this study first seeks to explore the differences in the participants’ reading fluency in paper and digital reading environme...

Thus, we conclude that a modal like ‘think’ is a necessary ingredient for de re/de dicto ambiguity. Roughly put, the ambiguity of (1) can be understood as follows. In the interpretation where ‘the linguist’ refers to Sue, it is evaluated against what we know, so the referent of ‘the linguist’ is who we know as the unique linguist, i.e. Sue. This is the same for the unembedded sentence in (4). O...

The emergence of Tablet PCs in recent years has further triggered an evolution of e-books. Tablet PCs are very likely to become a dominant e-book reading device in the future. This paper probed into attitude toward using and intention to read e-books for Tablet PCs among e-book users in Taiwan based on a model combining Technology Acceptance Model and Innovation Diffusion Theory. The proposed m...

Over the last 15 years, researchers have become increasingly interested in children’s motivation to read. Because reading is an exigent activity that often involves choice, motivation is crucial to reading engagement. The purpose of this case study was to investigate student attitudes toward reading at summer reading clinic through an urban teaching college in upstate New York. It was hypothesi...