Comprehensive Learning through Reading : From Paper to Screen

Elena Bárcena Madera

ISBN 10: 3631938276 / ISBN 13: 9783631938270

Published by Peter Lang, 2026

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Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - This book presents a comprehensive and multidisciplinary journey through the concept and practice of reading, offering perspectives from various disciplines such as psychology, pedagogy, and technology. It explores what it means to be literate in the contemporary world, where digital technology and screen-based media are reshaping the engagement with texts. The volume examines how literacy has evolved across different historical periods and cultural contexts, highlighting the ways in which reading strategies have adapted to new media environments. Contributors revisit traditional approaches to reading while designing and proposing new digital tools that support a new model of transliteracy, which encompasses multiple platforms, formats, and modes of communication. The book offers both a critical reflection on the implications of digital technologies for reading and learning, and a hopeful outlook on the integration of traditional and emerging literacies in education.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Comprehensive Learning through Reading : From Paper to Screen
• Publisher: Peter Lang
• Publication Date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3631938276
• ISBN 13: 9783631938270
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 210W x 148H x 32D millimeters 210 millimeters width by 148 millimeters height by 32 millimeters depth
• Weight: 618 grams

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Synopsis

This book presents a comprehensive and multidisciplinary journey through the concept and practice of reading, offering perspectives from various disciplines such as psychology, pedagogy, and technology. It explores what it means to be literate in the contemporary world, where digital technology and screen-based media are reshaping the engagement with texts. The volume examines how literacy has evolved across different historical periods and cultural contexts, highlighting the ways in which reading strategies have adapted to new media environments. Contributors revisit traditional approaches to reading while designing and proposing new digital tools that support a new model of transliteracy, which encompasses multiple platforms, formats, and modes of communication. The book offers both a critical reflection on the implications of digital technologies for reading and learning, and a hopeful outlook on the integration of traditional and emerging literacies in education.

About the Author

Elena Bárcena Madera is Professor of English Language and Linguistics at UNED (Spain). Her research focuses on language education and digital learning. She leads the ATLAS group which researches on technology-enhanced language learning with a social application.

María Goicoechea de Jorge is a teacher at the English Department of University Complutense of Madrid (UCM) and coordinator of the Master's program in Digital Letters. She has edited, along with Elena Bárcena Madera, the Interactive Calleja Project (2021), a collection of digitally enriched short stories based on Edith Nesbit’s tales.