The purpose of this research is to enlighten reading aspect of Thai Korean learners with eye-tracking technique and retrospective think aloud. For this purpose, we first compared reading aspect of Thai and non-Thai Korean learner groups. Firstly, there was a statistically significant difference between two groups in the performance time for two types of tasks. Secondly, the result suggested that fixation duration average of the two groups did not show a statistically significant difference between the two. Thirdly, average saccade length was slightly longer with the group with Thai participants, which is related to the result that regressive counts to Area of Interests were higher for the non-Thai group than the Thai group. The result implies that Thai participants did not understand the general content of the text and did not distinguish between important and unimportant material as they are reading the text. Lastly, we agreed with the previous studies which have suggested the challenges with reading aspect were due to differences between Thai and Korean languages. Additionally, strategic training is needed for efficient reading. This research is meaningful as it proves, with qualitative methods, difficulties with Korean reading due to mother language of learners.
1. 들어가는 말
2. 선행 연구
3. 실험 대상과 절차
4. 연구 결과
5. 결론
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