Reading Flashcards
What is the lexical decision task?
Does a letter string form a word? Links orthography and semantics
What is a naming task?
Visually presented words are pronounced out loud. Links orthography and phonology
What is eye tracking?
Record eye movements during reading, unobtrusive.
How do we read in the West?
We read left to right (horizontal), top to bottom and we learn how to sound out words.
What are graphemes?
Letters or groups of letters representing the most common spellings for the individual phonemes
What is an example of how English is very inconsistent/ non-transparent?
Break vs freak, heard vs beard
What can we hypotheses in relation to the eye tracking experiment?
If we read left to right then we should be able to observe eye movements going left to right (saccades)
What questions were asked before the experiment started?
Do language and expertise influence reading strategies? Do readers read words differently depending on the language transparency?
What were the 2 types of participants used in the experiment?
Native German (L1) and French (L2). Native French (L1) and German (L2)
What did they track in the experiment?
Eye movements while bilinguals read words aloud in native language and foreign language.
In the experiment, what did the stimuli consist of?
8- five letter and 80 eight letter nouns per language. 60 pseudo words (30 five letter and 30 eight letter)
What was a prediction of the eye tracking experiment?
Readers should look at the first letter within the first 12.5 to 20% of the word length.
What was the findings of the eye tracking experiment?
People don’t fixate on the first letter first, they much closer to the centre of the word, this should not happen if we read text letter by letter. Initial fixation is the same for familiar words and pseudo words.
Why do we deliberately fixate towards the centre of words?
Because written language is not sufficiently transparent.