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Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Reading Science
  • Developmental Psychology

Background:

  • Text genre influences reading comprehension and eye movement patterns.
  • Adolescent reading of narrative and expository texts is documented, but poetry is understudied.
  • Global eye movement strategies during adolescent reading require further investigation.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate how text genre and comprehension level affect global eye movement strategies in adolescents.
  • To utilize scanpath analysis for measuring these eye movement patterns.
  • To explore the understudied area of adolescent poetry reading.

Main Methods:

  • Scanpath analysis was employed to examine eye movement patterns.
  • Forty-four adolescents participated in the study.
  • Participants read narrative, expository, and poetic texts.

Main Results:

  • Two primary reading patterns emerged: forward (linear) and regressive (lookbacks).
  • Regressive patterns were more frequent with expository and poetic texts compared to narrative texts.
  • Higher comprehension levels were associated with increased regressive patterns for expository and poetic texts.

Conclusions:

  • Scanpath analysis effectively reveals genre-driven differences in adolescent reading strategies.
  • Genre expectations appear to shape visual processing during reading.
  • Eye movement patterns provide insights into cognitive strategies employed during reading comprehension.