Messias André, Velasco e Cruz Antonio Augusto, Schallenmüller Sonia Jecov, Trauzettel-Klosinski Susanne
Center for Ophthalmology, Universidade de Tübingen, Alemanha.
Arq Bras Oftalmol. 2008 Jul-Aug;71(4):553-8. doi: 10.1590/s0004-27492008000400016.
To develop standardized texts in Brazilian Portuguese to assess reading speed and compare performances among four European languages.
10 texts were designed by a linguistic expert at the level of a sixth grade reading material (reading ages 10-12 years) and were matched for length and syntactic complexity, according to the syntactic prediction locality theory of Gibson. Normally sighted native speaking volunteers aged 18-35 years read each text aloud at random.
The reading speed was on average 1100 +/- 167 (standard deviation) characters per minute. Only small differences were found between the measured reading speeds of the 10 texts, and these differences were not statistically significant in groups of at least 6 texts. The mean reading speed in age-matched volunteers in Finnish was: 1263 +/- 142; French: 1214 +/- 152; English: 1234 +/- 147; and German: 1126 +/- 105.
The authors developed a set of standardized, homogeneous, and comparable texts in Brazilian Portuguese. These texts will be a valuable tool to measure reading speed for repeated measurements and in international studies in the field of reading and low vision research.
开发巴西葡萄牙语的标准化文本，以评估阅读速度并比较四种欧洲语言之间的表现。
由一位语言专家按照六年级阅读材料（阅读年龄为10 - 12岁）的水平设计了10篇文本，并根据吉布森的句法预测局部性理论在长度和句法复杂性方面进行了匹配。18 - 35岁的母语为正常视力的志愿者随机大声朗读每篇文本。
阅读速度平均为每分钟1100 +/- 167（标准差）个字符。在10篇文本的测量阅读速度之间仅发现了微小差异，并且在至少6篇文本的组中这些差异无统计学意义。年龄匹配的芬兰志愿者的平均阅读速度为：1263 +/- 142；法语：1214 +/- 152；英语：1234 +/- 147；德语：1126 +/- 105。
作者开发了一套巴西葡萄牙语的标准化、同质且可比的文本。这些文本将成为测量阅读速度的宝贵工具，可用于重复测量以及阅读和低视力研究领域的国际研究。
