Research Grant
[Cite as https://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/DP160103224]Researchers: Prof Sally Andrews (Chief Investigator)
Brief description Tracking reading comprehension: What experts reveal about the mind. This project plans to use expert readers to provide a window on what defines optimal reading. Reading is a complex skill that requires precise coordination of cognition, perception and attention. By measuring skilled readers’ eye movements while they read sentences and short passages, the experiments are designed to investigate how individual differences in reading, spelling and vocabulary influence the timing and coordination of word identification and comprehension processes during normal reading and how this changes with a readers' goals. The results would distinguish between competing theories of how skilled readers balance word identification and comprehension processes, an issue that is critical to current debates about how reading should be taught.
Funding Amount $328,892
Funding Scheme Discovery Projects
- PURL : https://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/DP160103224
- ARC : DP160103224