Phonological Coding during Sentence Reading in Chinese Deaf Readers: An Eye-Tracking Study

Yan, Guoli, Lan, Zebo, Wang, Yingchao and Benson, Valerie orcid iconORCID: 0000-0002-0351-4563 (2021) Phonological Coding during Sentence Reading in Chinese Deaf Readers: An Eye-Tracking Study. Scientific Studies of Reading, 25 (4). pp. 287-303. ISSN 1088-8438

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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/10888438.2020.1778000

Abstract

Phonological coding plays an important role in reading for hearing students. 3 Experimental findings regarding phonological coding in deaf readers are 4 controversial, and whether deaf readers are able to use phonological coding 5 remains unclear. In the current study we examined whether Chinese deaf students 6 could use phonological coding during sentence reading. Deaf middle school 7 students, chronological age-matched hearing students, and reading ability-8 matched hearing students had their eye movements recorded as they read 9 sentences containing correctly spelled characters, homophones, or unrelated 10 characters. Both hearing groups had shorter total reading times on homophones 11 than they did on unrelated characters. In contrast, no significant difference was 12 found between homophones and unrelated characters for the deaf students. 13 However, when the deaf group was divided into more-skilled and less-skilled 14 readers according to their scores on reading fluency, the homophone advantage 15 noted for the hearing controls was also observed for the more-skilled deaf 16 students.


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