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In:Innovation and Expansion in Translation Process Research
Edited by Isabel Lacruz and Riitta Jääskeläinen
[American Translators Association Scholarly Monograph Series XVIII] 2018
► pp. 241–265

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Chapter 11
How editors read

An eye-tracking study of the effects of professional editorial experience and task instruction on reading behaviour

Published online: 1 February 2018
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Abstract
The focus of this exploratory study is the relationship between the predictor variables of editorial experience and task instruction, and reading behaviour. Professional editors and non-editors read two texts for two different purposes (reading for comprehension and reading in preparation of editing) while their eye movements were recorded. The participants’ overall reading behaviour and their reading behaviour around errors in the texts were analysed across the two reading tasks using several eye-tracking measures. The data were analysed using linear mixed-effects modelling. Our findings suggest that task instruction and editorial experience interact to have a strong effect on temporal eye movements. The findings further suggest the development of highly automated reading and processing strategies for editors.
Article outline
  • Introduction
  • Experimental design and methodology
    • Participants
    • Materials
      • Reading texts
      • Comprehension test and editing task
    • Procedure
  • Data analysis
    • Macro-analysis
    • Micro-analysis
  • Findings
    • Macro-analysis
      • Fixation duration and fixation count
      • Forward saccade length and saccade count
      • Regression length and regression count
    • Micro-analysis
      • Dwell time
      • First-fixation duration
  • Discussion and interpretation of findings
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • References
  • Appendix
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