Evaluating the Reading Quality of Brazilian undergraduates, assessed through eye-tracking and Lexical Quality measures.

• Grant number: 20/15916-4
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: October 01, 2021
• End date: December 31, 2022
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Psychology - Cognitive Psychology
• Principal Investigator: Katerina Lukasova
• Grantee: Isabel Almeida Bender Verrone
• Host Institution: Centro de Matemática, Computação e Cognição (CMCC). Universidade Federal do ABC (UFABC). Santo André , SP, Brazil

Abstract

This research aims to measure the reading ability of university students based on the LexicalQuality construct (PERFETTI, 2002, 2017) and the use of the preview benefit in wordrecognition. Given the chronic problem of reading performance of a large portion of theBrazilian high school students, and as well as the belief that those arriving at the universitymust have overcome this difficulty, we propose to measure the reading ability of newlyarrived students in the light of the Lexical Quality construct and the use of parafoveal reading;to identify whether the Brazilian Portuguese spelling (PBT-BR) plays the same role reportedby native speakers of English reading it. Several tasks are to be applied to collect dataregarding the orthographic, semantic, and syntactic recognition of words which were fullysupplied by the subjects of the high school curriculum. Students' reading practice of thesewords will be evidenced by the lexical quality of the freshmen. To study the use of theparafovea we will use the Flexible Frontier Paradigm (MCONKIE and RAYNER, 1975) inthe eye tracker. The work is also to measure the reading ability of senior students, with thesame procedure used with the new students, to investigate if the reading demanded during thegraduation ends up improving the individual reading ability, as well as whether universityindicators of school performance reflect this supposed progress.

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ISABEL ALMEIDA BENDER VERRONE; CAIO FALCÃO PEREIRA; MARIA CRISTINA MICELLI FONSECA; KATERINA LUKASOVA. . Revista CEFAC, v. 26, n. 4, 2024-07-08. (20/15916-4)