Eye-tracking in Recent L2 Learner Research
Huixian Qiao, Ying Shan Cao, Zhihan Sun, Ziwei Yang, Dingyi Li, Shihua Li · Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research/Advances in social science, education and humanities research · 2022
This paper reviews the eye-tracking L2 learner process studies published between 2013 and 2021.Specifically, the paper focuses on reviewing the eye-tracking L2 learner process research areas, the issues addressed by the studies in each area, and the comparison of domestic and foreign studies.It was found that eye-tracking has been used in eight L2 learner process research areas: vocabulary processing and learning, listening comprehension, syntactic processing, written text production, reading comprehension, text-based computer-mediated communication (CMC),oral communication, and data validation.The paper reveals that data collection and analysis approaches have differed from one area to another, and it provides some research and methodological suggestions.