The advent of the Internet has generated new ways of reading for knowledge, suggesting that digital literacy is a necessity for students of this new era. Even so, there is still a dearth of knowledge in the field that can provide rich theoretical descriptions of online reading processes of English as a Foreign

In recent years the use of hypermedia environments has gained significant attention in language classrooms. These environments have been used mostly for general English classes. However, it seems vital to utilize hypermedia reading texts at the academic EFL postgraduate level. On the other hand, considering the principle of dual presentation of information in cognitive theory of multimedia learning, there is a need to accommodate postgraduate EFL learners' different sensory pathways in order to present information in the appropriate form based on their needs.

This study compares verbs and verb collocation patterns in English and Persian in terms of their internal size. English is a language of conciseness, while Persian uses too many words to express a single concept. Due to the diversity of English verb types governed by certain syntactic restriction rules, and thanks to different types of verb collocations, it is potentially hard for the Iranian EFL learners to establish compatibility between Persian and English verbs. The study, using the Hamshahri Newspaper corpus shows that some English verbs have subject or object arguments and even adverbs included within their semantic and syntactic properties and this makes it very easy for the native speakers to express the most with the least number of words This, however, can make finding equivalents very hard especially when Persian follows an SOV sentence pattern in which the two parts of collocation may stay far from each other.