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Nannan Cui; Yang Wang; Jiefei Luo; Yan Wu – Journal of Research in Reading, 2024
Background: Executive function (EF) plays a crucial role in children's reading. However, previous studies were based on offline products of reading comprehension. Online research is needed to reveal the core mechanisms underlying children's reading processing. By measuring children's working memory (WM) and cognitive flexibility (CF), we…
Descriptors: Executive Function, Eye Movements, Reading Comprehension, Reading Processes
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Binder, Katherine S.; Tremblay, Kathryn A.; Joseph, Alison – Journal of Research in Reading, 2020
Background: The purpose of the current study was to examine how the morphological structure of a real word or novel word affected the incidental vocabulary learning of participants and to examine how these target items are processed as they are read. In addition, we examined the roles of vocabulary depth and breadth in the process of incidental…
Descriptors: Incidental Learning, Morphology (Languages), Reading Processes, Eye Movements
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Ginestet, Emilie; Shadbolt, Jalyssa; Tucker, Rebecca; Bosse, Marie-Line; Deacon, S. Hélène – Journal of Research in Reading, 2021
Background: Efficient word identification is directly tied to strong mental representations of words, which include spellings, meanings and pronunciations. Orthographic learning is the process by which spellings for individual words are acquired. Methods: In the present study, we combined the classic self-teaching paradigm with eye tracking to…
Descriptors: Orthographic Symbols, Reading Processes, Eye Movements, Task Analysis
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Vogelzang, Margreet; Fuhrhop, Nanna; Mundhenk, Tobias; Ruigendijk, Esther – Journal of Research in Reading, 2023
Background: German is exceptional in its use of noun capitalisation. It has been suggested that sentence-internal capitalisation as in German may benefit processing by specifically marking a noun and thus a noun phrase (NP). However, other cues, such as a determiner, can also indicate an NP. The influence of capitalisation on processing may thus…
Descriptors: German, Nouns, Punctuation, Phrase Structure
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Liu, Pingping; Lu, Qin – Journal of Research in Reading, 2018
This paper studies the mechanisms behind the differential effects of inserting a space either before or after a two-character unit on information processing through the examination of eye movements in Chinese, a language where there is no word delimiters. A two-character unit in this study is either a word-preserving stimulus or a word-disrupting…
Descriptors: Eye Movements, Chinese, Reading Processes, Orthographic Symbols
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León, José A.; Moreno, José David; Escudero, Inmaculada; Olmos, Ricardo; Ruiz, Marcos; Lorch, Robert F. – Journal of Research in Reading, 2019
Background: The present study analysed how relevance instructions affect eye movement patterns and the performance in a summary task of six expository texts. Methods: Forty-one undergraduate students participated in the experiment; half of them were instructed to make an oral summary of the main ideas focusing on the 'why' question that appeared…
Descriptors: Reading Strategies, Eye Movements, Undergraduate Students, Oral Language
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Yeari, Menahem; Oudega, Marja; van den Broek, Paul – Journal of Research in Reading, 2017
The present study investigated the effect of text highlighting on online processing and memory of central and peripheral information. We compared processing time (using eye-tracking methodology) and recall of central and peripheral information for three types of highlighting: (a) highlighting of central information, (b) highlighting of peripheral…
Descriptors: Memory, Eye Movements, Reading Processes, Comparative Analysis
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Zhou, Wei; Shu, Hua; Miller, Kevin; Yan, Ming – Journal of Research in Reading, 2018
Background: Disruptions of reading processes due to text substitutions can measure how readers use lexical information. Methods: With eye-movement recording, children and adults viewed sentences with either identical, orthographically similar, homophonic or unrelated substitutions of the first characters in target words. To the extent that readers…
Descriptors: Reading Processes, Eye Movements, Phonology, Orthographic Symbols
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Zhou, Huixia; Rossi, Sonja; Li, Juan; Liu, Huanhuan; Chen, Ran; Chen, Baoguo – Journal of Research in Reading, 2017
By using the eye-tracking method, the present study explores whether working memory capacity assessed via the second language (L2) reading span (L2WMC) as well as the operational span task (OSPAN) affects the processing of subject-extraction and object-extraction in Chinese-English bilinguals. Results showed that L2WMC has no effects on the…
Descriptors: Short Term Memory, Bilingualism, Eye Movements, Chinese
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Liversedge, Simon P; Hyona, Jukka; Rayner, Keith – Journal of Research in Reading, 2013
Chinese written language is different from alphabetic written languages in many respects, and for this reason, interest in the nature of the cognitive processes underlying Chinese reading has flourished over recent years. A number of researchers have used eye movement methodology as a measure of on-line processing to understand more about…
Descriptors: Chinese, Eye Movements, Reading, Cognitive Processes
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Zhou, Wei; Kliegl, Reinhold; Yan, Ming – Journal of Research in Reading, 2013
Parafoveal semantic processing has recently been well documented in reading Chinese sentences, presumably because of language-specific features. However, because of a large variation of fixation landing positions on pretarget words, some preview words actually were located in foveal vision when readers' eyes landed close to the end of the…
Descriptors: Semantics, Chinese, Reading Processes, Eye Movements
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Yang, Jinmian – Journal of Research in Reading, 2013
The current paper examined the role of plausibility information in the parafovea for Chinese readers by using two-character transposed words (in which the order of the component characters is reversed but are still words). In two eye-tracking experiments, readers received a preview of a target word that was (1) identical to the target word, (2) a…
Descriptors: Chinese, Eye Movements, Reading Processes, Word Lists
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Wang, Hsueh-Cheng; Schotter, Elizabeth R.; Angele, Bernhard; Yang, Jinmian; Simovici, Dan; Pomplun, Marc; Rayner, Keith – Journal of Research in Reading, 2013
Previous research indicates that removing initial strokes from Chinese characters makes them harder to read than removing final or internal ones. In the present study, we examined the contribution of important components to character configuration via singular value decomposition. The results indicated that when the least important segments, which…
Descriptors: Chinese, Eye Movements, Visual Stimuli, Visual Perception
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Li, Xingshan; Shen, Wei – Journal of Research in Reading, 2013
The present study examined how insertion of spaces before and after a word affects saccade target selection in Chinese reading. We found that inserting spaces in Chinese text changes the eye movement behaviour of Chinese readers. They are less likely to fixate on the character near the space and will try their best to process the entire word with…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adults, College Students, Eye Movements
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Chen, Minglei; Ko, Hwawei – Journal of Research in Reading, 2011
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…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Eye Movements, Word Frequency, Literary Genres
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