{"title":"The Effect of Arabic Language on Reading English for Arab EFL Learners: An Eye Tracking Study","authors":"Kholod S. Al-Khalifah, Hend Suliman Al-Khalifa","doi":"10.1109/IALP.2011.18","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents an pilot study that applies eye tracking technology to analyze the effect of Arabic language on reading English for Arab EFL learners. The outcome of this study reveals a strong relationship between the way Arabic is read and the reading of English text for EFL students.","PeriodicalId":297167,"journal":{"name":"2011 International Conference on Asian Language Processing","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2011-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"5","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"2011 International Conference on Asian Language Processing","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IALP.2011.18","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
This paper presents an pilot study that applies eye tracking technology to analyze the effect of Arabic language on reading English for Arab EFL learners. The outcome of this study reveals a strong relationship between the way Arabic is read and the reading of English text for EFL students.