Developmental trajectories of eye movements in oral and silent reading for beginning readers: a longitudinal investigation.

ABSTRACT: Eye movements provide a sensitive window into cognitive processing during reading. In the present study, we investigated beginning readers' longitudinal changes in temporal and spatial measures of eye movements during oral versus silent reading, the extent to which variation in eye movements is attributable to individual differences and text differences, and the functional form of growth trajectories of eye-movement variables. Data were from 363 English-speaking children (52% male; 59.8% White) in the US who were followed longitudinally from Grade 1 to Grade 3. Results showed a rapid decrease in temporal eye-movement measures (e.g., first fixation) and an increase in spatial eye-movement measures (initial landing position) in both oral and silent reading. The majority of variance in eye mo

SUBMITTER: Kim YG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9636221 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature