Text reading in English as a second language: Evidence from the Multilingual Eye-Movements Corpus

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2022-03-01

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Kuperman, Victor
Siegelman, Noam
Schroeder, Sascha
Acarturk, Cengiz
Alexeeva, Svetlana
Amenta, Simona
Bertram, Raymond
Bonandrini, Rolando
Brysbaert, Marc
Chernova, Daria
Da Fonseca, Sara Maria
Dirix, Nicolas
Duyck, Wouter
Fella, Argyro
Frost, Ram
Gattei, Carolina A.
Kalaitzi, Areti
Loo, Kaidi
Marelli, Marco
Nisbet, Kelly
Papadopoulos, Timothy C.
Protopapas, Athanassios
Savo, Satu
Shalom, Diego E.
Slioussar, Natalia
Stein, Roni
Sui, Longjiao
Taboh, Anali
Tonnesen, Veronica
Usal, Kerem Alp

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Research into second language (L2) reading is an exponentially growing field. Yet, it still has a relatively short supply of comparable, ecologically valid data from readers representing a variety of first languages (L1). This article addresses this need by presenting a new data resource called MECO L2 (Multilingual Eye Movements Corpus), a rich behavioral eye-tracking record of text reading in English as an L2 among 543 university student speakers of 12 different L1s. MECO L2 includes a test battery of component skills of reading and allows for a comparison of the participants' reading performance in their L1 and L2. This data resource enables innovative large-scale cross-sample analyses of predictors of L2 reading fluency and comprehension. We first introduce the design and structure of the MECO L2 resource, along with reliability estimates and basic descriptive analyses. Then, we illustrate the utility of MECO L2 by quantifying contributions of four sources to variability in L2 reading proficiency proposed in prior literature: reading fluency and comprehension in L1, proficiency in L2 component skills of reading, extralinguistic factors, and the L1 of the readers. Major findings included (a) a fundamental contrast between the determinants of L2 reading fluency versus comprehension accuracy, and (b) high within-participant consistency in the real-time strategy of reading in L1 and L2. We conclude by reviewing the implications of these findings to theories of L2 acquisition and outline further directions in which the new data resource may support L2 reading research.

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/97040

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STUDIES IN SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION

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https://doi.org/10.1017/s0272263121000954

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V. Kuperman et al., “Text reading in English as a second language: Evidence from the Multilingual Eye-Movements Corpus,” STUDIES IN SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION, pp. 0–0, 2022, Accessed: 00, 2022. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/97040.