Silent reading time and reading aloud with young, older adults and elderly people

Abstract: This study aims to measure the Portuguese and English reading time (in silent and reading aloud texts), as well as the eyetracking control (the amount and the number of fixations and regressions (go-past reading), with three different experimental groups (10 for each one of the groups): young, old, and aging-elderly people, using eye-tracker EyeTribe. The results showed that the young participant group differed from the other two groups, with the measure length time ranging from 200 to 250 ms. The young participant group obtained a longer time in reading English than Portuguese. The elderly group showed a higher number than the established standard one of 500 ms, averaging between 600-650 ms. In English texts, the reading time was longer in the three categories. The participants read English texts faster when reading silently than when reading aloud.