Developmental Differences in the Relationship Between Visual Attention Span and Chinese Reading Fluency.

ABSTRACT: It has been suggested that there is a close relationship between visual attention span (VAS) and fluent reading. This relation may be modulated by participants' age, and exhibits various patterns in different reading modes (i.e., oral vs. silent reading) and different reading levels (e.g., sentence vs. character/word levels). Moreover, the modulation effects from the above factors might be more remarkable in the framework of languages with a deep orthography. Therefore, the present study investigated the developmental pattern of the relationship between VAS skills and reading fluency in Chinese, a language with particularly deep orthography, by recruiting 292 participants from primary schools, middle schools, and universities. Two tests were utilized to assess fluent reading skills at the

SUBMITTER: Huang C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6851167 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature