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Schoor, Cornelia; Rouet, Jean-François; Britt, M. Anne – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2023
On a daily basis, most people read about issues of interest from a diversity of sources. Moreover, the information they encounter frequently encompass discrepancies, ranging from minor inconsistencies to straight contradictions. Readers may construct coherent representations from discrepant contents by linking contents to their respective sources…
Descriptors: Reading Processes, Reading Comprehension, Information Sources, College Students
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Roy-Charland, Annie; Perron, Melanie; Boulard, Jessica; Chamberland, Justin; Hoffman, Nichola – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2015
The current study examined the effect of pointing to the words and using highlighted text by examining eye movements when children in preschool, Grade 1 and 2 were read storybooks of two levels of difficulty. For all children, pointing to and highlighting the text was observed to increase the amount of time and number of fixations on the printed…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Early Childhood Education, Grade 1, Grade 2
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Beers, Scott F.; Quinlan, Thomas; Harbaugh, Allen G. – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2010
This study employed eyetracking technology to investigate adolescent students' reading processes as they composed and to explore relationships between these reading processes and text quality. A sample of 32 adolescent students composed narrative and expository texts while eyetracking equipment recorded their eye movements. Eye movements upon a…
Descriptors: Eye Movements, Technology Uses in Education, Adolescents, Reading Processes