Using eye tracking to investigate inference generation during L2 reading

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In addition to my studies in psycholinguistics and related fields, I submitted documents to my university in summer 2022 to allow for the purchase of a high-quality eye tracking system. As a result of this process, which was resolved successfully, I have purchased an SR Research Eyelink 1000 Plus system which can record eye movements at a frequency of 1000 Hz. This system is used widely in eye tracking reading experiments because of its precision recording capability and is well suited to my reading research. I have received training from the manufacturer in setup procedures. I have installed this system in a laboratory environment and learned how to use software to design experiments and create data visualizations. Using manufacturer software, I created an experiment that can be run using the tracking hardware and computers in my lab.I have also applied for and received received ethics approval from my university to begin work with human participants. I have begun recruiting students from my university as paid study participants. I have conducted recording sessions with four students at the time of writing and have collected useful data from these recording sessions. I aim to recruit nine or ten participants for valid data analysis in a pilot study.I have also begun studying programming in R. I have learned to work with the recorded data which I can export as .csv files. I am now beginning to do descriptive statistical analysis on the recorded data using R. I aim to recruit more students to gather more data to allow for valid tests of my hypothesis.