Unpacking eye movements during oral and silent reading and their relations to reading proficiency in beginning readers

2019 ◽  
Vol 58 ◽  
pp. 102-120 ◽  
Author(s):  
Young-Suk Grace Kim ◽  
Yaacov Petscher ◽  
Christian Vorstius
Keyword(s):  
Eye Movements ◽  
Reading Proficiency ◽  
Silent Reading ◽  
Beginning Readers

scholarly journals Exploring the Moderation Effect of Educational Stage on Visual Magnocellular Functioning Linked to Reading: A Study in French Primary School Children

Children ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 68
Author(s):  
Stéphanie Bellocchi ◽  
Virginie Leclercq
Keyword(s):  
Reading Proficiency ◽  
Beginning Readers ◽  
Primary School Children ◽  
Moderation Effect ◽  
Magnocellular System ◽  
Reading Abilities ◽  
Developing Readers ◽  
System Functioning ◽  
Advanced Readers ◽  
The Relationship

Many studies have investigated the visual magnocellular system functioning in dyslexia. However, very little is known on the relationship between the visual magnocellular system functioning and reading abilities in typical developing readers. In this study, we aimed at studying this relationship and more specifically the moderation effect of educational stage on this link. We thus tested 82 French typical developing readers (40 beginning readers—Grade 1 and 42 advanced readers—Grade 5) with reading tests and a coherent dot motion task measuring the visual magnocellular functioning. Results indicate positive correlations between visual magnocellular functioning and reading for beginning readers but not for advanced readers. Moreover, moderation analyses confirm that reading proficiency moderates the relationship between magnocellular system functioning and reading outcomes. We concluded that the relationship between visual magnocellular pathway functioning and reading abilities in typical developing readers could depend on reading proficiency.

Eye movement programming and reading accuracy

2018 ◽  
Vol 71 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Albrecht W Inhoff ◽  
Julie Gregg ◽  
Ralph Radach
Keyword(s):  
Eye Movements ◽  
Eye Movement ◽  
Silent Reading ◽  
Linguistic Information ◽  
Reading Accuracy ◽  
Path Analyses ◽  
Oculomotor Responses

Eye movements were measured during the silent reading of sentences to extract several oculomotor measures. Rather than each measure being examined independently, oculomotor responses were grouped into two types, the assumption being that the grouping would project onto underlying constructs. Properties of forward-directed movements were assumed to reflect the success with which linguistic information was acquired (acquisition), and corrective responses were assumed to reveal readers’ responding to difficulties (correction). These two types of oculomotor responses were linked to indexes of reading accuracy (accuracy), which were obtained from separate materials so that eye movements with one set of materials could be used to predict reading accuracy for another set of materials. Path analyses indicated that correction, but not acquisition, was linked to accuracy. The additional clustering of acquisition, correction, and accuracy scores identified a group of readers with relatively low accuracy scores. These readers were typical in their acquisition of linguistic information but under-used corrective responding.

scholarly journals Rhythmic subvocalization: An eye-tracking study on silent poetry reading

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Judith Beck ◽  
Lars Konieczny
Keyword(s):  
Eye Movements ◽  
Eye Tracking ◽  
Eye Movement ◽  
Silent Reading ◽  
Local Context ◽  
Two Stage ◽  
Differential Effects ◽  
Poetry Reading ◽  
High Degree

The present study investigates effects of conventionally metered and rhymed poetry on eye-movements in silent reading. Readers saw MRRL poems (i.e., metrically regular, rhymed language) in two layouts. In poem layout, verse endings coincided with line breaks. In prose layout verse endings could be mid-line. We also added metrical and rhyme anomalies. We hypothesized that silently reading MRRL results in building up auditive expectations that are based on a rhythmic “audible gestalt” and propose that rhythmicity is generated through subvocalization. Our results revealed that readers were sensitive to rhythmic-gestalt-anomalies but showed differential effects in poem and prose layouts. Metrical anomalies in particular resulted in robust reading disruptions across a variety of eye-movement measures in the poem layout and caused re-reading of the local context. Rhyme anomalies elicited stronger effects in prose layout and resulted in systematic re-reading of pre-rhymes. The presence or absence of rhythmic-gestalt-anomalies, as well as the layout manipulation, also affected reading in general. Effects of syllable number indicated a high degree of subvocalization. The overall pattern of results suggests that eye-movements reflect, and are closely aligned with, the rhythmic subvocalization of MRRL. This study introduces a two-stage approach to the analysis of long MRRL stimuli and contributes to the discussion of how the processing of rhythm in music and speech may overlap.

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