title: The use of deep and surface learning strategies among students learning English as a foreign language in an Internet environment.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  The learning context is learning English in an Internet environment. The examination of this learning process was based on the Biggs and Moore's teaching-learning model (Biggs & Moore, 1993).
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  The research aims to explore the use of the deep and surface strategies in an Internet environment among EFL students who come from different socio-economic backgrounds. The results of the research may add an additional level to the understanding of students' functioning in the Internet environment.
  
  
  METHODS
  One hundred fourty-eight Israeli junior and high school students participated in this research.
  
  
  METHODS
  The methodology was based on special computer software: Screen Cam, which recorded the students' learning process. In addition, expert judges completed a questionnaire which examined and categorized the students' learning strategies.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The research findings show a clear preference of participants from all socio-economic backgrounds towards the surface learning strategy. The findings also showed that students from the medium to high socio-economic background used both learning strategies more frequently than low socio-economic students.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The results reflect the habits that students acquire during their adjustment process throughout their education careers. A brief encounter with the Internet learning environment apparently cannot change norms or habits, which were acquired in the non-Internet learning environment.
authors.affiliation: Department of Information Science, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel. aharonn l @mail.biu.ac.il
authors.forename: Noa
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Aharony
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet / Q000295:instrumentation*; D007802:Language; D007858:Learning; D008297:Male; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D012984:Software; D013334:Students / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014584:User-Computer Interface; D014706:Verbal Learning