Exploring the eye movement patterns as Chinese reader reading Chinese Classical texts: the effect of text difficulty

• Main Authors: Wang, Feng-Ho, 王豐賀
• Other Authors: Minglei Chen
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2014
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/md4uq3

碩士 === 國立新竹教育大學 === 臺灣語言與語文教育研究所 === 102 === Classical Chinese plays a rather important role in generic structure. Yet, so far common Chinese text is the main basic research material in Chinese reading comprehension. Less information is available for on-line reading processes, much empirical research is needed. We examined whether difficulty of Classical Chinese text affected difference levels of Chinese readers in on-line reading processes from college and senior high school students. Eye movements were recorded while 60 students read 2 Classical Chinese texts of different difficulty. Two main findings were based on the analysis of text reading and sentences. Classical Chinese text on-line reading processes are presented in readers’ types and difficulty of texts. Characters per Minute (CPM), average fixation duration (AFD), average saccadic length （ASL）and reading comprehension correct ratio are used to explain the analysis of text reading. In the findings, main effect showed in difficulty of text reading but not in readers’ types based on CPM and AFD indexes. Main effect showed in readers’ types but not in difficulty of text reading based on ASL and Correct ratio indexes. There was no interaction among the four indexes. Three eye movement indexes, first gaze duration (GD), rereading gaze(RG) and total reading time (TRT) are used to analyze units of sentences. In the findings, main effect showed in difficulty of text reading (easy 1: Zhou Ji Xiu Ba Chi You Yu passage 1 and Yu Li Zi Zhuan Long ) and readers’ types based on GD index. Resutls showed that there was no significant two-way interaction. Based on RG index, main effect didn’t show in difficulty of text reading (easy 1: Zhou Ji Xiu Ba Chi You Yu passage 1 and Yu Li Zi Zhuan Long; easy 2: Zhou Ji Xiu Ba Chi You Yu passage 2 and Yu Li Zi Zhuan Long ) and readers’ types. The significance of two-way interaction showed in difficulty of text reading and readers’ types. Based on TRT index, main effect showed in difficulty of text reading (easy2: Zhou Ji Xiu Ba Chi You Yu passage 2 and Yu Li Zi Zhuan Long ). There was significant two-way interaction in the difficulty of text reading (easy1: Zhou Ji Xiu Ba Chi You Yu passage 1 and Yu Li Zi Zhuan Long; easy2: Zhou Ji Xiu Ba Chi You Yu passage 2 and Yu Li Zi Zhuan Long ) and readers’ types. Based on the finding in this research, there is no differnce in Characters per Minute (CPM) of colledge students and senior high school students. Meanwhile, college students have better efficiency in construccting or synthetic propostion in on-line reading processes. That is, they also have better later text comprehension in Classical Chinese texts than high school students.