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The purpose of this research is to determinate the opinions of 8^th grade students about reading on screen. The research has been conducted in accordance with the descriptive scanning model. The study group of this research consist of 30 volunteer students. Having a personel computer has taken into consideration fort he students who are going to attend the interview. Data of the research has been acquired via the semi-structured interview form. 3 different questions have been asked to the students in the interview. Students’ thoughts about reading on screen have been tried to receive via these questions. Content analysis has been used in the analysis of the students’ answers, first the data has been coded and then the topics which explain the data in general level have been determined. In determination of the categories, literature, interview questions and the students’ answers to these questions have been benefited from.

According to findings that have been acquired, students have both positive and negative opinions for reading on screen. In addition to this, most of the students generally prefer reading on screen to reading from printed material. The students stated the reasons of choosing the reading on screen as “reading on screen’s easing the reading process”, “reading on screen’s being interesting”, “reaching the intended informationin an easy and fast way”, “easy data portability” and “texts’ being easy to skim”. Besides a great majority of the students think that using the electronic texts in education will be useful resulting from the factors such as “contents’ being supported visually and auraly”, “books being in electronic form”, “rapid-access to information, efficient use of time” and “improving the students’ motivation”