From human skin to computer screens and eBooks, with clay, papyrus, animal skinsand paper in between writing materials have varied and evolved throughout the centuries.Readres have had to adapt to this evolution in the materials and the wrinting and they havechanged the way they read.With the wide spread use of new technologies and their omnipresence in our dailylives, the arrival of new tools, such as the eBook or the iPad. This study has sought to explorethe changes in the strategies used by university students learning French as a foreignlanguage. When reading with different reading materials : the computer screen, the eBook orpaper.The types of discourse have also been taken into consideration. The short story andthe newspaper editorial influence the strategies of the reconstruction of the meaning of thetexts that were read. To gather the data, the main tolls of investigation were questionnairesand interviews.The analysis of this data has permitted us to establish readers' types and to showhow they read. This study insists on the importance of teaching strategies that take intoconsideration the materials being used as well as the types of discouse being read, whetherin language learning or not.
