Revealing the Learning Effectiveness of Social Tagging in an On-line Reading Learning Environment

Abstract

With the emergence of Web 2.0, social tagging provides an opportunity to help learners to share, organize, and manage the learning information from reading materials. Moreover, a tag-based learning system can enable them to complete their learning activities in an effective and efficient way through the use of web 2.0 social tagging technologies. However, few studies have directly discussed why social tagging can benefit from user-generated tags in reading learning. Therefore, this paper first explores the use of effective social tagging learning to help students not only improve their understanding of the English material that they read, but also develop their ability to read well. We then investigate how to apply tag-based learning to help learners focus on studying the resources and make sense of the material and remember it more easily. The experimental results showed that tag-based learning can improve users’ efficiency in reading learning.