Journal of Undergraduate Research
Keywords
prereaders, eyetracking, children, illustrations
College
Family, Home, and Social Sciences
Department
Psychology
Abstract
Reading to children has long been considered a critical factor in the development of their reading skill1. However, very little research has been done on prereader children and their eye movements. Studies that have been performed show that children tend to fixate more on the illustrations in books than on the words in the books (looking at the words only 7% of the time)2. Moreover, children tend to look more at illustrations of objects that are mentioned in the story3. To date there is very little research investigating whether children’s eye movements are so neatly synced to the auditory input, and none that specifically investigates the eye movements of children on a millisecond level when they are being read to. With this in mind, the purpose of the present study is to use eye tracking to study pre-readers’ early eye movements to discover how they acquire the vocabulary that is a prerequisite for later reading skill.
Recommended Citation
Banks, Anna and Luke, Steven
(2016)
"Prereaders and Eyetracking,"
Journal of Undergraduate Research: Vol. 2016:
Iss.
1, Article 89.
Available at:
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/jur/vol2016/iss1/89