Title :
A Study on Eye Movement of Thai Students Reading Chinese Texts with or without Marks for Word Boundaries
Author :
Jiao Yumei ; Yu Peng
Author_Institution :
Chinese Dept., Duksung Women´s Univ., Seoul, South Korea
Abstract :
By comparing the eye movement data of Thai students reading Chinese texts with or without marks for word boundaries, the researcher has found that: (1) To Thai students, the Chinese words represent more Psychological reality than Chinese characters. (2) The reading efficiency of Thai students could be immensely improved by inserting word boundary marks. It is, therefore, suggested that when publishing Chinese textbooks intended for Thai students, we adjust the way we do typesetting today and insert word boundary marks into the text.
Keywords :
computer aided instruction; object tracking; visual perception; Chinese characters; Chinese text reading; Chinese textbooks publishing; Chinese words; Thai students; eye movement; psychological reality; typesetting; word boundaries; word boundary marks; Chinese text; Thai students; eye movement; space;
Conference_Titel :
Asian Language Processing (IALP), 2011 International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Penang
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-1733-8
DOI :
10.1109/IALP.2011.35
