Bilingual Children Reading English
(Mandarin-English bilinguals, 4-6 years old)

Co-Investigators: Dr Aine Ito and Steve Paquin

Description

Your child is invited to participate in an English reading experiment. This experiment will use eye-tracking to study your child’s reading. If your child is selected for the study, they will participate in a reading assessment, two reading lessons, and an eye-tracking experiment. During the eye-tracking experiment, your child will visit the psycholinguistics lab and read aloud a series of English words presented on a computer screen.

For participating, your child will receive a small toy of their choice, and you will receive the results of their reading assessment. This experiment takes place over four days in one week and includes the following:

1. 15 minute English reading assessment
2. Lesson A: 30 minutes of English reading instruction
3. Lesson B: 20 minutes of English reading instruction
4. 20-30 minute eye-tracking experiment with post-test.

Only those selected for the experiment will receive an email invitation. If you have any questions, please contact Steve Paquin at steven.paquin@u.nus.edu.

Eligibility

To participate in this experiment, your child must meet the following criteria:

– 4-6 years of age
– speak Mandarin and English
– learning to read English
– not have any language or neurological diagnoses
– normal vision (or corrected-to-normal vision) and normal hearing

If your child meets these requirements, please apply to participate.

This study has already been approved by NUS.

If your child is selected to participate, you will be provided this form in person.