Metaphor perceptions of students towards online reading

Abstract

This research is important in terms of determining the changes in students' perceptions of online reading at different levels. The aim of this study is to determine the metaphor perceptions of primary, secondary, high school and university students towards online reading. For this purpose, what are the metaphors created by the participants (primary, secondary, high school and university students) regarding the concept of "online reading"? Under which conceptual themes are the metaphors put forward by the participants (primary, secondary, high school and university students) gathered in terms of their common characteristics? answers to the questions were sought. The participants of the research, which was designed with the phenomenology pattern, which is one of the qualitative research methods, consists of 500 students studying in primary, secondary, high school and university 4th grade Turkish, Primary School, Social Studies, and Preschool Teachers. A semi-structured interview form was used as a data collection tool. The data were analyzed using the content analysis technique. As a result of the study, 11 categories were obtained from 271 Metaphors developed for online reading. These categories are: “Access to information”, “Diversity”, “Infinity”, “Reliability of information”, “Guideline”, “Different point of view”, “Sharing information”, “Interesting and fun”, “Addiction”, “Artificialism” and “Mandatory need” is online reading.

Keywords

• online reading
• metaphor
• primary-secondary-high school and faculty of education students

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