Adolescent student’s prior knowledge about intenet and reading strategies when locating information on the web

In order to provide information about how prior knowledge of Internet use is linked to the strategies reported in a reading task on the internet, the following research was conducted. 29 students in junior high school in Mexico City were selected based on their level of prior knowledge on how to use the internet for doing homework. Participants were asked to complete a reading task on the internet and their reading strategies were observed. Important discussion about the way reading strategies on the internet are being measured is relevant; also it has to be considered that prior knowledge about the use of the internet not necessary. Participants recover or retrieve when they working in the reading task on the internet in the same way, thus the preliminary results of this research allow us to think through the design of instruments in order to get more precise measures of prior knowledge before and during the reading task.