APS
30th APS Annual Convention · 2018
An Evaluation of the Effects of English Second Language Status on Overt Attention to Different Word Classes during a Continuous Reading Task
- Daniel Larranaga
California State University, Northridge - Brandon Hackney
California State University, Northridge - Cynthia Delgado
California State University, Northridge - Casey McGinnis
California State University, Northridge - Aileen Kangavary
California State University, Northridge - Stefanie Drew
California State University Northridge
Abstract
The present work aims to evaluate the differences between English First and English Second Language students. We investigate participants’ fixation and skip rates on content compared to function words during an eye-tracked reading task.
Bilingualism