Hahn G A, Penka D, Gehrlich C, Messias A, Weismann M, Hyvärinen L, Leinonen M, Feely M, Rubin G, Dauxerre C, Vital-Durand F, Featherston S, Dietz K, Trauzettel-Klosinski S
Department of Pathophysiology of Vision and Neuro-Ophthalmology, University Eye Hospital, Tübingen, Schleichstrasse 12-16, 72076 Tübingen, Germany.
Br J Ophthalmol. 2006 Apr;90(4):480-4. doi: 10.1136/bjo.2005.087379.
To develop standardised texts for assessing reading speed during repeated measurements and across languages for normal subjects and low vision patients.
10 texts were designed by linguistic experts in English, Finnish, French, and German. The texts were at the level of a sixth grade reading material (reading ages 10-12 years) and were matched for length (830 (plus or minus 2) characters) and syntactic complexity, according to the syntactic prediction locality theory of Gibson. 100 normally sighted native speaking volunteers aged 18-35 years (25 per language) read each text aloud in randomised order. The newly designed text battery was then applied to test the reading performance of 100 normally sighted native speaking volunteers aged 60-85 years (25 per language).
Reading speed was not significantly different with at least seven texts in all four languages. The maximum reading speed difference between texts, in the same language was 6.8% (Finnish). Average reading speeds (SD) in characters per minute are, for the young observer group: English 1234 (147), Finnish 1263 (142), French 1214 (152), German 1126 (105). The group of older readers showed statistically significant lower average reading speeds: English 951 (97), Finnish 1014 (179), French 1131 (160), German 934 (117).
The authors have developed a set of standardised, homogeneous, and comparable texts in four European languages (English, Finnish, French, German). These texts will be a valuable tool for measuring reading speed in international studies in the field of reading and low vision research.
为正常受试者和低视力患者在重复测量及跨语言情况下评估阅读速度制定标准化文本。
由语言专家设计了10篇英文、芬兰文、法文和德文文本。这些文本为六年级阅读材料水平（阅读年龄10 - 12岁），根据吉布森的句法预测局部性理论，在长度（830（±2）个字符）和句法复杂性方面进行了匹配。100名年龄在18 - 35岁的以母语为英语的正常视力志愿者（每种语言25名）以随机顺序大声朗读每篇文本。然后将新设计的文本组应用于测试100名年龄在60 - 85岁的以母语为英语的正常视力志愿者（每种语言25名）的阅读表现。
在所有四种语言中，至少有七篇文本的阅读速度没有显著差异。同一语言中文本之间的最大阅读速度差异为6.8%（芬兰语）。年轻观察组每分钟字符的平均阅读速度（标准差）为：英语1234（147），芬兰语1263（142），法语1214（152），德语1126（105）。老年读者组的平均阅读速度在统计学上显著较低：英语951（97），芬兰语1014（179），法语1131（160），德语934（117）。
作者开发了一套四种欧洲语言（英语、芬兰语、法语、德语）的标准化、同质且可比的文本。这些文本将成为阅读和低视力研究领域国际研究中测量阅读速度的宝贵工具。
