Reading Glossed Passages in English to Improve Comprehension: An Eye Tracking Study

Glosses or short explanations of vocabulary items are commonly found in language learning materials. Research that use offline measures to examine effects glosses on they useful facilitating acquisition and overall text comprehension. This paper reports a small-scale study combined an measure with online reading behaviour attempt provide more comprehensive picture glossed passages. The eye tracking methodology was used insights into the cognitive processing reading. A group 15 university undergraduates read four non-glossed passages English answered comprehension questions afterwards. findings revealed were differently readers attempting integrate information former. Vocabulary knowledge predict performance some extent, glosses. also suggest moderate amount attention could be for as too much appeared indicate difficulties. Suggestions promote strategic discussed. Keywords glosses; reading; processing; tracking; second