抄録
Mark Warschauer (2011) presented that visual syntactic text formatting (VSTF) was a promising approach for making reading material more accessible to ESL learners. VSTF, as a method of displaying digital text on screens of digital devices, seems to have three major advantages: providing meaning clues by organizing text according to syntactic structure, enabling efficient reading according to fixation of reader's visual focus, and causing less eyestrain. Preceding studies on VSTF with ESL students have shown higher performance of reading fluency, and comprehension. This paper will examine the use of this format in reading activity of college EFL students. Unlike prior studies, this attempt puts emphasis on improving reading efficiency and speed, both of which I have long been
seeking to improve in a specific software environment. The results show the advantages and limitations of VSTF when it is used for a different purpose, and, eventually, some improvements to this unique format turn out to be effective for optimized digital text.
