Context effects in processing of Chinese academic words: An eye-tracking investigation

Reading Research Quarterly

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 403-413

  Jian, Yu Cin ^a   Chen, Ming Lei ^b   Ko, Hwa Wei ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Adolescent young adult literature; Adult; Automaticity; Cognitive; College university students; Comprehension; Comprehension monitoring; Content analyses; Content literacy; Context; Context clues; Decoding; Depth of (higher level literal level etc.); Domain knowledge; Experimental, quasi experimental; Eye movement; Fluency; General vocabulary; High frequency words; Information processing; Informational text; Language learners; Learning strategies; Linguistics; Literary theory; Literature; Making inferences; Metacognitive strategies; Morphemic analysis; Morphology; Predicting; Prior knowledge; Psycholinguistic; Reading strategies; Research methodology; Scientific; Selecting; Sight words, word recognition; Specific subject areas (math, art, etc.); Speed, rate; Strategies, methods, and materials; Text features, text structure; Text types, text features; Theoretical perspectives; To learners in which of the following categories does your work apply?; Vocabulary; Word structure

Indexed keywords

EID: 84893513152     PISSN: 00340553     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/rrq.56     Document Type: Article

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