A3 Refereed book chapter or chapter in a compilation book
Language learner's seeking paths and strategies: one dimension of digital literacy
Authors: Sanna Pelttari, Maarit Mutta
Editors: Maarit Mutta, Pekka Lintunen, Ilmari Ivaska, Pauliina Peltonen
Publisher: Jyväskylän yliopistopaino
Publishing place: Jyväskylä
Publication year: 2014
Journal: Suomen Soveltavan Kielitieteen Yhdistyksen Afinlan Julkaisuja
Book title : Tulevaisuuden kielenkäyttäjä – Language users of tomorrow
Series title: Suomen Soveltavan Kielitieteen Yhdistyksen Afinlan Julkaisuja
Number in series: 72
Volume: 2014
Issue: 72
First page : 157
Last page: 175
ISBN: 978-951-9388-60-1
ISSN: 0781-0318
eISSN: 0781-0318
The aim of this article is to study how students search for relevant information on the internet, focussing on their use of sources and search strategies in order to accomplish given tasks. In addition, the aim was to study what type of seekers’ profiles can be found in different tasks. By digital literacy, we mean the critical assessment and use of digital technologies and competences in digital communication and discourse. Finnish L2 students of French (n=10) and Spanish (n=10) took part in a translation course and participated in a three-part small-scale qualitative study: a translation task, a pedagogical intervention and a translation commentary task. In this article we focus on the seekers’ paths and strategies forming seekers’ profiles in tasks one and two. The results showed that the seekers’ profiles tend to remain similar for different tasks. The number of queries used did not always result in success in terms of finding the correct answer.