ABSTRACT
This chapter presents an overview of current data collection methods and data analyses in eye-tracking research with young children (ages 4–12), with a focus on L2 learners. Dussias and Miller survey recent studies in child L2 eye-tracking research, drawing also from their own work with children from under-represented communities. They focus primarily on studies that have employed the visual world paradigm to examine spoken language comprehension, and they also discuss research that has investigated L2 reading in children using eye tracking. Dussias and Miller elaborate on how eye-tracking methods can be paired with production data (e.g., child-caregiver corpus studies, elicitation tasks) to increase our understanding of the type of L2 input that children receive, as well as children’s knowledge of language across development.
