The process of reading Enem Spanish questions

Evidence of eye tracking

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https://doi.org/10.15448/1984-4301.2020.4.37530

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Enem, Eye Tracking, Spanish, Reading, Psycholinguistics of bilingualism

Abstract

This paper presents an eye tracking study on the reading process of high school students while answering questions from the Enem-2017 Spanish Language Test. The research was aimed at identifying reading strategies and sources of difficulty of two groups of participants when taking the test. Group A (GA) had more previous study time in the Spanish Language and group B (GB) had less previous study time. The analyses considered eye movements (monitored during the task), accuracy and time of performance. Eye tracking data demonstrated that in both groups the preferred reading path is from the text to the multiple-choice alternatives and that textual complexity seems to affect the number and duration of fixations. There was a significant difference between the two groups, with more hits for GA than for GB. Therefore, the time devoted to studying the language seems to affect the performance of the participants in the reading comprehension.

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Mariana da Silva Miranda, Secretaria de Estado de Educação do Rio de Janeiro (SEEDUC-RJ), Petrópolis, RJ, Brasil

Mestre em Estudos da Linguagem pela Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), no Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil; professora de espanhol e de língua portuguesa da Secretaria de Estado de Educação do Rio de Janeiro (SEEDUC–RJ) e do Colégio Bom Jesus Canarinhos.

Erica dos Santos Rodrigues, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil.

Doutora em Letras pela Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), no Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil; professora da mesma instituição.

 

Elena Ortiz Preuss, Universidade Federal de Goiás (UFG), Goiânia, GO, Brasil.

Doutora em Estudos da Linguagem pela Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), em Porto Alegre, RS, Brasil; professora da Universidade Federal de Goiás, GO, Brasil.

 

 

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2020-10-08

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Miranda, M. da S., Rodrigues, E. dos S., & Preuss, E. O. (2020). The process of reading Enem Spanish questions: Evidence of eye tracking. Letrônica, 13(4), e37530. https://doi.org/10.15448/1984-4301.2020.4.37530

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Vol. 13 No. 4 (2020): Literacia em um Contexto Multiletrado: bases teóricas, metodológicas e empíricas

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