Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP160103224

Funded Activity Summary

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.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2016

End Date: 31-12-2018

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $328,892.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Sensory Processes, Perception and Performance | Cognitive Science | Linguistic Processes (incl. Speech Production and Comprehension) | Computer Perception, Memory and Attention

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Syllabus and Curriculum Development | Learner and Learning Processes | School/Institution Policies and Development |

Other Keywords

Cognitive Science | Computer Perception, Memory and Attention | Learner and Learning Processes | Linguistic Processes (incl. Speech Production and Comprehension) | School/Institution Policies and Development | Sensory Processes, Perception and Performance | Syllabus and Curriculum Development

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