Reading Comprehension and Hyperlinks

Text with embedded hyperlinks makes different demands on the reader than traditional text. This has been a popular subject of recent articles and books by authors such as Nicholas Carr and psychologists such as Maryanne Wolf. Their concerns revolve around the detrimental effect the internet may have on attention and reading comprehension.

Some studies have examined the increased demands of reading hyperlinked text in terms of cognitive load, which may be thought of as the amount of information actively maintained in one’s mind (also see working memory). While the research in this area is

Teaching Reading Comprehension

There was a period between 1969 to about 2000 that a number of "strategies" were devised for teaching students to employ self-guided methods for improving reading comprehension. In 1969 Anthony Manzo designed and found empirical support for the ReQuest, or Reciprocal Questioning Procedure, it was the first method to convert emerging theories of social and imitation learning into teaching methods that employed these powerful factors in learning through a very clever use of a talk rotation between students and teacher that has come to be called cognitive modeling. Prior to this breakthrough most all comprehension teaching were based on imparting selected techniques that when taken