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Prereaders And Eyetracking, Anna Banks, Steven Luke
Prereaders And Eyetracking, Anna Banks, Steven Luke
Journal of Undergraduate Research
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 …