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Publication Date: 2005
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Perspective Effects on Expository Text Comprehension: Evidence from Think- Aloud Protocols, Eyetracking, and Recall
Kaakinen, Johanna K.; Hyona, Jukka
Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, v40 n3 p239-257 2005
In this study, 36 participants read an expository text describing 4 rare illnesses from a given perspective. Their eye movements were recorded during reading, and think-alouds were probed after 10 relevant and 10 irrelevant sentences. A free recall was collected after reading. The results showed that in addition to increasing the fixation time and recall for relevant in comparison to irrelevant text information, a reading perspective guides readers to use slightly different comprehension processes for relevant text information, as shown by think-aloud protocols. Repetitions were more frequent responses after relevant than after irrelevant target sentences. Verbally reported processing strategies were associated with the eye-fixation patterns. Verbal responses indicative of deeper processing were associated with longer first-pass fixation times than those indicative of shallower processing. It is concluded that a "triangulation" using complementary measures is a worthwhile endeavor when studying text-comprehension processes.
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Expository Writing, Eye Movements, Protocol Analysis, Recall (Psychology), Sentences, Cognitive Processes
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