Connected Text Reading and Differences in Text Reading Fluency in Adult Readers

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Connected Text Reading and Differences in Text Reading Fluency in Adult Readers. / Wallot, Sebastian; Hollis, Geoff; van Rooij, Marieke.
in: PLoS ONE, Jahrgang 8, Nr. 8, e71914, 20.08.2013.

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Wallot S, Hollis G, van Rooij M. Connected Text Reading and Differences in Text Reading Fluency in Adult Readers. PLoS ONE. 2013 Aug 20;8(8):e71914. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0071914

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title = "Connected Text Reading and Differences in Text Reading Fluency in Adult Readers",
abstract = "The process of connected text reading has received very little attention in contemporary cognitive psychology. This lack of attention is in parts due to a research tradition that emphasizes the role of basic lexical constituents, which can be studied in isolated words or sentences. However, this lack of attention is in parts also due to the lack of statistical analysis techniques, which accommodate interdependent time series. In this study, we investigate text reading performance with traditional and nonlinear analysis techniques and show how outcomes from multiple analyses can used to create a more detailed picture of the process of text reading. Specifically, we investigate reading performance of groups of literate adult readers that differ in reading fluency during a self-paced text reading task. Our results indicate that classical metrics of reading (such as word frequency) do not capture text reading very well, and that classical measures of reading fluency (such as average reading time) distinguish relatively poorly between participant groups. Nonlinear analyses of distribution tails and reading time fluctuations provide more fine-grained information about the reading process and reading fluency.",
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