An Eye Movement Study of the Effects of Anomaly on Mongolian College Students’ English Sentence Reading

Abstract

Many studies have been carried on the influences of anomaly on sentence reading abroad, but there are not a lot in China. The study designed three types of sentences, including plausible sentences, semantic anomaly sentences and pragmatic anomaly sentences, made use of the Hi-speed eye tracker, and did experiments on twenty Mongolian college student to find out the influences of anomaly on their English sentence reading. The eye movement data from the three conditions showed that anomaly had influences on Mongolian college students' English sentence reading: semantic anomaly sentences and synthetic anomaly sentences had obvious interference effects, which indicated that Mongolian college students made both semantic and syntactic processing while reading English sentences.