Orthography and the Development of Reading Processes: An Eye-Movement Study of Chinese and English

Autor/inn/en	Feng, Gary; Miller, Kevin; Shu, Hua; Zhang, Houcan
Titel	Orthography and the Development of Reading Processes: An Eye-Movement Study of Chinese and English
Quelle	In: Child Development, 80 (2009) 3, S.720-735 (16 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0009-3920
DOI	10.1111/j.1467-8624.2009.01293.x
Schlagwörter	Undergraduate Students; Eye Movements; Written Language; Reading Processes; Grade 5; Orthographic Symbols; Reading Skills; Emergent Literacy; Child Development; English; Chinese; Grade 3; Elementary School Students; Age Differences; Developmental Stages + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Augenbewegung; Geschriebene Sprache; Leseprozess; School year 05; 5. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 05; Reading skill; Lesefertigkeit; Frühleseunterricht; Kindesentwicklung; English language; Englisch; China; Chinesen; School year 03; 3. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 03; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied
Abstract	As children become proficient readers, there are substantial changes in the eye movements that subserve reading. Some of these changes reflect universal developmental factors while others may be specific to a particular writing system. This study attempts to disentangle effects of universal and script-dependent factors by comparing the development of eye movements of English and Chinese speakers. Third-grade (English: mean age = 9.1 years, n = 23; Chinese: mean age = 9.4 years, n = 25), fifth-grade (English: mean age = 11.2 years, n = 30; Chinese: mean age = 11.4, n = 25), and undergraduate students (English: n = 26; Chinese: n = 30) read stories in their native language while their eye movements were recorded. Results show a mixture of orthography-dependent factors with others that are remarkably parallel across these two very different writing systems. Orthographic effects are also more pronounced for children than for skilled adult readers. Implications for theories of reading eye movements and reading development are discussed. (As Provided).
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