A Comparative Study on the Eye Movement Patterns in Malay- english Bilingual Readers

During the process of reading, the eyes do not move continuously but jump from one word to another, and they also stop at particular points. In eye-tracking studies, these processes are called „saccade‟ and „fixation‟. This paper presents an analysis of the reading patterns of readers reading Malay and English sentences and questions using the eye tracker. Malay-English bilingual readers read a set of statements in Malay and English and their reading comprehension was tested using questions with different levels of difficulty. Their correct responses and reactions to the comprehension questions are also presented and discussed in this paper.