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Understanding Instructional Support Needs of Emerging Internet Users for Web-based Information Seeking ...
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As the wealth of information available on the Web increases, Web-based information seeking becomes a more and more important skill for supporting both formal education and lifelong learning. However, Web-based information access poses hurdles that must be overcome by certain student populations, such as low English competency users, low literacy users, or what we will refer to as emerging Internet users. The challenge springs from the fact that the bulk of information available on the Web is provided in a small number of high profile languages such as English, Korean, and Chinese. These issues continue to be problematic despite research in cross-linguistic information retrieval and machine translation, These technologies are still too brittle for extensive use by these user populations for the purpose of bridging the language gulf. In this paper, we propose a mixed-methods approach to addressing these issues specifically in connection with emerging Internet users, with data mining as a key component. Our ... : The file is in PDF format. If your computer does not recognize it, simply download the file and then open it with your browser. ...
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emerging internet users; information seeking task; nonnative English speakers; personalization; search strategies; web-log analysis
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URL: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3554740
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