Influence of letter shape on readers' emotional experience, reading fluency, and text comprehension and memorisation.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

The amount of educational material delivered to pupils and students through digital screens is increasing. This method of delivering educational materials has become even more prevalent during the COVID-19 pandemic. To be as effective as possible, educational material must be properly designed not only in terms of content, but also in terms of form, e.g., the typeface. The present study investigated the effect of letter shape on readers' feelings of pleasantness during reading, reading fluency, and text comprehension and memorisation.

Methods

To find out whether age influences the effects of typeface shape on reading measures, we divided the participants into a group of less experienced readers (children) and more experienced readers (adults). Both groups read t

SUBMITTER: Medved T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9996753 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature