2023 Fiscal Year Research-status Report
Eye movements during reading as a window to non-native speaker's language comprehension processes
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20K00584
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| Research Institution | The University of Tokyo |
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Principal Investigator |
ローランド ダグラス 東京大学, 大学院総合文化研究科, 准教授 (60749290)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2020-04-01 – 2025-03-31
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| Keywords | eye tracking / L2 comprehension |
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| Outline of Annual Research Achievements |
We were able to start collecting eye-tracking data from Japanese speakers of English in 2023, and continued to collect/analyze online self-paced reading time data and sentence completion data from native speakers of English, which will serve as a partial control for the eye movement data from our ongoing/planned experiments involving Japanese speakers of English. The self-paced reading time data has provided strong evidence against a view suggesting that native speakers rely on structural heuristics (and not semantic plausibility) to make parsing decisions during language comprehension. Specifically, these experiments provide an alternate explanation for the results found in Staub, Foppolo, Donati, & Cecchetto (2018).
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| Current Status of Research Progress |
Current Status of Research Progress
4: Progress in research has been delayed.
Reason
The goal of this research is to collect eye movement/reading time data. While we were previously unable to collect eyetracking data to due to restrictions due to COVID19, we were able to resume data collection during 2023, and data collection is currently ongoing. We also collected online self-paced reading time data and sentence completion data from native speakers of English. This data which will serve as a partial control for the eye movement data from our ongoing/planned experiments involving Japanese speakers of English.
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| Strategy for Future Research Activity |
In 2024, we will continue to collect eye-tracking data from Japanese speakers of English, based on the originally planned experiments as well as ones designed in response to the results we obtained from our self-paced reading time experiments on native speakers of English.
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| Causes of Carryover |
Because of restrictions due to COVID19, we were unable to collect eye-tracking data for an extended period of time. These restrictions have been removed, and we are now actively collecting data.
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