Linking Language to Literacy with the Eyes: Differences in Emerging Bilingual Good and Poor Readers' Eye Tracking

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Award Amount
$50,000
Funding Source
University of Oregon, Office of the Vice President for Research and Innovation
Principal Investigator
Gina Biancarosa Ed.D.

Description

Explores the phenomenon of specific reading comprehension difficulties by using eye-tracking technology and traditional measures of language and literacy as a window on cognitive processes to examine how language background and facility among bilingual Spanish-English speakers is related to ease and difficulty in English reading comprehension among intermediate-grade readers.