Based on the analysis of 190 studies (18,573 participants), we estimate that the average
silent reading rate for adults in English is 238 words per minute (wpm) for non-fiction and …

Eye Tracking in Second Language Acquisition and Bilingualism provides foundational
knowledge and hands-on advice for designing, conducting, and analysing eye-tracking …

眼跳和注视是阅读过程中的两种基本眼动现象. 目前在对阅读的眼动研究中分析指标主要包括两
类, 一类是与眼睛何时移动有关的时间维度的眼动指标, 具体包括以字或词为兴趣区的眼动指标 …

Reading of alphabetic writing systems, such as English, has been extensively studied and
most theories and models of reading are based on findings from these studies. This practice …

Eye movements are now widely used to investigate cognitive processes during reading,
scene perception, and visual search. In this article, research on the following topics is …

The present review summarizes research investigating how words are identified
parafoveally (and foveally) in reading. Parafoveal and foveal processing are compared …

Background Word frequency is the most important variable in language research. However,
despite the growing interest in the Chinese language, there are only a few sources of word …

In the Chinese writing system, there are no interword spaces to mark word boundaries. To
understand how Chinese readers conquer this challenge, we constructed an integrated …

Segmenting a chunk of text into words is usually the first step of processing Chinese text, but
its necessity has rarely been explored. In this paper, we ask the fundamental question of …

Literacy has many obvious benefits: it exposes the reader to a wealth of new information and
enhances syntactic knowledge. However, we argue that literacy has an additional, often …