Eye-Movement Recording as a Tool for Studying Syntactic Processing in a Second Language: A Review of Methodologies and Experimental Findings

Autor/in	Frenck-Mestre, Cheryl
Titel	Eye-Movement Recording as a Tool for Studying Syntactic Processing in a Second Language: A Review of Methodologies and Experimental Findings
Quelle	In: Second Language Research, 21 (2005) 2, S.175-198 (24 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0267-6583
Schlagwörter	Cues; Reading; Reading Processes; Second Languages + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Stichwort; Leseprozess; Lesen; Second language; Zweitsprache
Abstract	The complex trace of saccades, fixations and regressions that the eyes make while taking in a line of text is unquestionably one of the richest accounts available as concerns the process of reading. Recording these jumps, stops and re-takes provides a to-the-letter, millisecond-precise report of the readers' immediate syntactic processing as well as revisions thereof. In addition, the influence of innumerable factors -- from low-level visual conditions to high-level pragmatic cues -- on the reading process can be measured via this method, thereby rendering possible the testing of various psycholinguistic models of parsing and comprehension. For all of these reasons, eye-movement recording has become an invaluable tool in the study of how readers process text. Interestingly, however, only a handful of eye-movement studies have been published as concerns reading in the second language. The goal of the present article is to outline the findings of these second language studies and, hopefully, to encourage future work in the field using this tool. (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10