Investigating the Effect of Different Levels of Reading Skills in English on the Features of Oculomotor Activity in 9-10-Year-Old Children

Document Type : Research Article

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1 Department of Applied and Experimental Linguistics, Kazan Federal University, Kazan, Russia

2 Department of Speech therapy, Moscow City Pedagogical University, Moscow, Russia

Abstract

The purpose of the study is to examine the characteristics of oculomotor activity in children, aged 9 to 10, who have varying degrees of proficiency in reading English when it comes to identifying units situated in the parafovea and on the edge of the foveal region. The connection between reading and parafoveal vision has been extensively studied; data for adult normotypical readers are available, but information for younger readers is lacking. 49 kids between the ages of 9 and 10 are involved in the study. The Standardized Method for Studying Reading Skills in English was used to evaluate English reading comprehension (Kornev, 2010). The colored progressive matrices developed by Raven et al. (2012) were used to measure nonverbal intelligence. We observed the informants' eye movements while they worked on an exercise designed to improve their angle of visual attention. Using Eye Link 1000+ equipment and a sampling rate of 1000 Hz, eye movements were recorded. The informant was seated in front of a 22-inch screen at a distance of 70 cm. The Data Viewer program was used to process the eye movements. The parameters of gaze movements and the coefficients of reading techniques were compared using Spearman's correlation analysis. There was a correlation at different levels between the parameters of the oculomotor activity in children completing the task for the development of the angle of visual attention and the rank correlation analysis of indicators of reading skills in English. The study's point of view is the examination of the relationship between visual-spatial perception, the breadth of the angle of visual attention, and the functions of programming and control.

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Journal of Research in Applied Linguistics
Volume 14, Issue 3
Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Research in Applied Linguistics (ICRAL 2023), October 30, 2023, Kazan, Russia
October 2023
Pages 437-441

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