The Influence of Reading Mode on Word Frequency Effect in Chinese Sentence Reading
Oral and silent reading are two basic reading modes.It is still controversial whether and how reading mode affects the word frequency effect.To further clarify this issue,the present study examined the word frequency effects of adults in different reading modes by using EyeLink 1000Plus.A 2(reading mode:oral,silent)×2(word frequency:high,low)within-subjects experimental design was adopted to provide evidence for the lexical processing difference between the two reading modes.It was found that word frequency significantly interacted with reading mode in first fixation duration,gaze duration,regression path duration,and total fixation duration.Specifically,there was a word frequency effect in silent reading condition but not in oral reading condition in first fixation duration,suggesting that the word frequency effect occurred slightly earlier in silent reading than in oral reading,and the word frequency effect was greater in oral reading in other temporal eye movement measures.The results suggest that adult readers process words more efficiently when reading silently compared to reading aloud.
oral readingsilent readingword frequency effecteye movements
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