Reading proficiency predicts spatial eye-movement control in the first and second language.

IF 2.2 2区心理学 Q2 PSYCHOLOGY

Journal of Experimental Psychology-Learning Memory and Cognition Pub Date : 2024-08-01 Epub Date: 2024-02-08 DOI:10.1037/xlm0001325

Daniil Gnetov, Victor Kuperman

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Abstract

Research on first language (L1) reading has long since established the link between the proficiency of the reader and their efficiency in oculomotor control. More proficient readers make longer saccades and land closer to the word's center, which is a word's optimal viewing position, and make fewer refixations. Eye-tracking studies of second language (L2) reading have so far provided little evidence in this regard. This study analyzes spatial oculomotor measures in the Multilingual Eye-movement Corpus, which contains data on English text reading and its component skills from 543 participants representing 12 different L1s. Our analyses establish a strong role of proficiency in English, both for L1 and L2 readers of English. While most effects replicated ones observed in L1 reading, we also found that more proficient readers of English were less accurate in targeting optimal viewing positions. We link this finding to Fitts' law of motor control for aimed movements. This article discusses the theoretical implications of the novel findings for reading research. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).

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阅读能力可预测第一语言和第二语言的空间眼动控制。

有关第一语言（L1）阅读的研究早已证实，阅读者的熟练程度与其眼球运动控制的效率之间存在联系。阅读能力较强的读者的眼球移动时间较长，并且更靠近单词的中心位置，这是单词的最佳视线位置，同时也减少了混淆。对第二语言（L2）阅读的眼动跟踪研究迄今为止还没有提供这方面的证据。本研究分析了多语言眼动语料库（Multilingual Eye-movement Corpus）中的空间眼动测量数据，该语料库包含来自 543 名代表 12 种不同 L1 语言的参与者的英语文本阅读数据及其组成技能。我们的分析表明，英语熟练程度对第一语言和第二语言的英语读者都有很大作用。虽然大多数效应都与在 L1 阅读中观察到的效应相同，但我们还发现，英语水平较高的读者在瞄准最佳观看位置时准确性较低。我们将这一发现与菲茨的瞄准运动控制法则联系起来。本文讨论了这些新发现对阅读研究的理论意义。(PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, 版权所有）。

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Journal of Experimental Psychology-Learning Memory and Cognition 医学-心理学

CiteScore

4.30

自引率

3.80%

发文量

163

审稿时长

4-8 weeks

期刊介绍： The Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition publishes studies on perception, control of action, perceptual aspects of language processing, and related cognitive processes.