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Öz Anahtar KelimelerBu çalışmanın amacı yabancı dilde kelime öğrenme stratejileri ölçeğinin geliştirilmesidir. Ölçek geliştirme süreci üç aşamada gerçekleştirilmiştir: a) Oxford (1990) 'un "Dil Öğreniminde Strateji Ölçeği" nin alt boyutlarını temel alarak kelime öğrenme stratejilerine yönelik maddelerin yazılması, b) uzman görüşleri doğrultusunda maddelerin yeniden düzenlenmesi ve bir grup öğrenciye uygulanarak görüşlerinin alınması, c) ölçeğin öğrencilere uygulanması (N=923)

Reading habits, accessing resources, and material preferences change rapidly in a digital world. University students, as digital natives, are accessing countless resources, from lecture notes to research papers electronically. The change of reading habits with a great scale has led to differentiation on accessibility of resources, archiving them and usage of related technologies. The purpose of this study is to examine the e-book usage preferences versus printed material along with reading habits in a context of different variables. Additionally, different uses of e-books in a variety of faculties have been the focus of this study. The participants comprised of 222 students, studying in 36 different universities across Turkey. A questionnaire was developed specifically for the study. The questionnaire consisted of three parts: Printed book reading habits, e-book reading habits (methods of reaching e-books, aim of usage etc.), and technological knowledge (e-book related tools and file formats etc.). According to the results of study, approximately 68% of university students stated that they read one book in a week and 62% indicated that they are e-book readers. Moreover, there was a significant relationship between social environment and reading habits of students. University students put forward accessibility advantage (68%) of e-book and stated that they mostly read e-book for research (81%). E-book format which is most commonly preferred among students is Portable Document Format (pdf) (73%), while the computer is the most commonly used e-book medium (60%).

Öz Anahtar KelimelerBu araştırma kelime öğretiminde kullanılan farklı eğitsel yazılım türlerinin (bire-bir eğitim yazılım ve eğitsel oyunlar) başarıya ve kelime öğrenme stratejilerine etkisini incelemektedir.

Users sometimes face a common and serious problem called disorientation, which is defined as the feeling of being lost in a web-based environment. It is important to determine the reasons for disorientation in order to make the students navigate more efficiently in these environments. The aim of this study is to investigate the relationship between navigation patterns, disorientation level and students’ cognitive ability. For this purpose, an experimental research was designed and a 223-page Wiki environment was developed as a network structured hypertext environment. Sixty-nine university students’ navigation processes including 6.880-row log data were recorded in order to measure their disorientation scores. We found that task complexity negatively affected disorientation scores. Disorientation scores decreased as the tasks became more difficult. Possible causes of the results are discussed. Keywords: Disorientation, cognitive ability, hypermedia navigation, task complexity.