In this talk, I will provide an overview of the relevance of eye–voice span research in multiline reading, presenting preliminary evidence from studies with children suggesting that line boundaries may modulate fluency during oral reading. I will also show that the eye–voice span may provide a more informative online index of reading processes than eye movement measures alone. These findings will be discussed in relation to working memory, considering its potential contribution to the coordination demands involved in reading.
Victoria Adedeji is an Early Career Fellow at the University of Leicester. She holds a PhD from Bournemouth University. Her research concerns how children transition from beginning oral readers to skilled silent readers, combining eye movements and voice recordings to study their temporal and spatial alignment and how that develops with reading skill. She will apply these techniques to the data from the BetterReading project in collaboration with Thanassi.