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Frontiers in Educational Research, 2022, 5(22); doi: 10.25236/FER.2022.052203.

Progress of bilingual reading studies in Tibetan and Chinese

Author(s)

Danhui Wang

Corresponding Author:
Danhui Wang
Affiliation(s)

School of Education, Tibet University, Lhasa, Tibet, 850000, China

Abstract

At present, there are few eye movement studies on Tibetan-Chinese bilingual reading. This paper sorts out the relevant research and puts forward some ideas for future research. First, investigate the role of tshegs in Tibetan reading. Second, investigate the influence of adding spaces between words in Tibetan texts on Tibetan reading. Third, investigate the mechanism of word saturation in Tibetan reading. Fourth, investigate whether there is "character transposition effect" in Tibetan reading? Fifth, investigate the extraction of semantic information from the parafoveal in Tibetan reading.

Keywords

Tibetan; reading; eye movement

Cite This Paper

Danhui Wang. Progress of bilingual reading studies in Tibetan and Chinese. Frontiers in Educational Research (2022) Vol. 5, Issue 22: 12-17. https://doi.org/10.25236/FER.2022.052203.

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