Exploring the eye-movement patterns as Chinese children read texts: a developmental perspective

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Title:	Exploring the eye-movement patterns as Chinese children read texts: a developmental perspective
Authors:	Chen,ML;Ko,HW
Contributors:	光電科學與工程學系
Keywords:	WORD-FREQUENCY;PREDICTABILITY;PERCEPTION;FIXATIONS
Date:	2011
Issue Date:	2012-03-27 18:16:06 (UTC+8)
Publisher:	國立中央大學
Abstract:	This study was to investigate Chinese children's eye patterns while reading different text genres from a developmental perspective. Eye movements were recorded while children in the second through sixth grades read two expository texts and two narrative texts. Across passages, overall word frequency was not significantly different between the two genres. Results showed that all children had longer fixation durations for low-frequency words. They also had longer fixation durations on content words. These results indicate that children adopted a word-based processing strategy like skilled readers do. However, only older children's rereading times were affected by genre. Overall, eye-movement patterns of older children reported in this study are in accordance with those of skilled Chinese readers, but younger children are more likely to be responsive to word characteristics than text level when reading a Chinese text.
Relation:	JOURNAL OF RESEARCH IN READING
Appears in Collections:	[Department of Optics and Photonics] journal & Dissertation

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