A Study on the Eye Movement Characteristics of Deaf Students in Processing Spatially Ambiguous Words in Reading
This research explores the cognitive characteristics of deaf students in resolving spatially ambiguous words in a Chinese reading context.The experiment manipulates the spatially ambiguous types and word frequencies of the text within specific regions of the sentences,tracking the eye movement trajectories of deaf students and hearing students as they read these sentences.The findings in the spatially ambiguous region are as follows:hearing students spend more time(including total fixation time and gaze time)in reading ambiguous words than in controlled sequences;the reading time of deaf students is not affected by spatially ambiguous words;hearing students are more likely to backtrack to the space of high-frequency ambiguous words than to the space of low-frequency ambiguous words,while deaf students do not show this effect;the results of post-target word region are studied to explore the lasting effect of the preceding spatially ambiguous type.It is found that spatially ambiguous words do not affect the fixation time in the target word region and the word frequency effect for deaf students is less than that for hearing students.Based on these findings,it is concluded that there are differences in the cognitive mechanisms between deaf students and hearing students in resolving spatially ambiguous words.Therefore,in Chinese language teaching,emphasis should be placed on enhancing the richness of lexical representations and the efficiency of word recognition for deaf students,while leveraging contextual information to assist their vocabulary learning.
deaf studentsspatial ambiguous wordsfrequency effectChinese readingeye movement
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