digital and reading literacy, types of communication, teaching technical subjects, teaching resources and texts

The aim of the study is to point out the issue of digital and reading literacy of pupils of secondary technical schools. The paper is based on quantitatively oriented questionnaire research, focused on the use of various types of (e) communication and reading in the technical subjects teaching. The research dealt with the pupils' interest in working with electronic, digital or traditional texts in the teaching of vocational subjects. Six hundred forty-nine students of technical high schools in the Moravian-Silesian Region of the Czech Republic took part in the survey. Chi-square research has shown that students who prefer to work with traditional textbook texts in paper form read texts from "everyday life" more frequently than students who do not prefer paper form in learning engineering subjects.