Shim, Wonsik
Byun, Jeayeon
2015-05-26
<p>The Web now provides instant access to an unprecedented amount of information<br />
that was unthinkable even 20–30 years ago. However, the full potential<br />
of the contents available through the Internet can only be realized when<br />
one can speak the lingua franca online, English. According to a recent survey<br />
(Web Technology Surveys, 2015), more than 55% of web contents are in<br />
English. Previous studies have shown that non-native speakers’ English proficiency<br />
affects their searching behaviors and performance (Bilal, 1989, Liao,<br />
Finn & Lu, 2007, Onwuegbuzie & Jiao, 1997). In this study, we try to investigate<br />
the effect of search task languages and task complexity on searching<br />
performance. In other words, we want to understand the extent to which the<br />
use of a foreign language becomes a barrier – when one’s native language is<br />
not English but one has to use English for searching on the Web for personal<br />
or work related tasks.</p>
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17979
oai:zenodo.org:17979
Zenodo
https://zenodo.org/communities/isi2015
https://doi.org/
info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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ISI 2015, Re:inventing Information Science in the Networked Society. Proceedings of the 14th International Symposium on Information Science, Zadar, Croatia, 19th–21st May 2015
Web searching
Task language
Task complexity
Search performance
Influence of Language and Task Complexity on Internet Searching Performance
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