Reading English Academic Texts: Evidence from ESL Undergraduates’ Eye Movement Data

Research on Eye Movement Tracking in ESL Reading

Eye movement behavior in reading can reflect on-line cognitive process. Through the on-line measure of eye movement, under relatively natural reading condition, data of the reader’ s eye movement in the text can be obtained in processing information, and thus help to reveal the internal cognitive mechanisms in reading. With the development of intelligentization, serialization and portable direc...

Comparative patterns of reading eye movement in Chinese and English.

Two very different language codes are exemplified by printed Chinese and English texts. Skilled native readers of each language have similar eye-movement patterns when care is taken to compare identical reading tasks and material and also to consider the Chinese multicharacter word. The similarity implies that both printed languages have been optimized to fit visual and oculomotor physiology an...

Examining the online reading behavior and performance of fifth-graders: evidence from eye-movement data

Online reading is developing at an increasingly rapid rate, but the debate concerning whether learning is more effective when using hypertexts than when using traditional linear texts is still persistent. In addition, several researchers stated that online reading comprehension always starts with a question, but little empirical evidence has been gathered to investigate this claim. This study u...

Spanish-English code-mixing at the Auxiliary Phrase: Evidence from eye-movement data

ESL Reading Research Based on Eye Tracking Techniques

Reading is a complex cognitive process. Through eye tracking techniques the cognitive features can be observed in depth, and therefore a better grasp of the instant cognitive processing of language can be achieved. Compared to traditional methods, the greatest advantage of eye tracking is that is that the reader proceeds with reading coherently and fluently without interrupt and interference, w...