Silent reading time and reading aloud with young, older adults and elderly people

Abstract: This study aims to measure the Portuguese and English reading time (in silent and reading aloud texts), as well as the eyetracking control (the amount and the number of fixations and regressions (go-past reading), with three different experimental groups (10 for each one of the groups): young, old, and aging-elderly people, using eye-tracker EyeTribe. The results showed that the young participant group differed from the other two groups, with the measure length time ranging from 200 to 250 ms. The young participant group obtained a longer time in reading English than Portuguese. The elderly group showed a higher number than the established standard one of 500 ms, averaging between 600-650 ms. In English texts, the reading time was longer in the three categories. The participants read English texts faster when reading silently than when reading aloud.

摘要：本研究旨在测量葡萄牙语与英语文本的默读及朗读阅读时长，并借助EyeTribe眼动仪，针对三组各10名受试者（分别为青年人、老年人及老龄长者）采集眼动控制相关指标，包括注视时长与注视次数、回视次数以及回溯式阅读（go-past reading）相关数据。研究结果显示，青年受试者群体与其余两组存在显著差异，其阅读时长区间为200至250毫秒；青年组阅读英语文本的时长较葡萄牙语文本更长。老龄组的阅读时长超出既定的500毫秒标准，平均时长介于600至650毫秒之间。三类受试者在英语文本阅读中的时长均更长，且受试者默读英语文本的速度快于朗读时的速度。