Project timeline
2019-2020
MECO Wave 1 data collection
Dutch, English (Canada), Estonian, Finnish, German, Greek, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Norwegian, Russian, Spanish (Argentina), Turkish
2020
English Reading Online (ENRO) data collection
Spanish, Dutch, French, English, German, Hebrew, Arabic, Italian, Japanese, Mongolian, Russian, Serbian, Slovenian, Mandarin Chinese, Thai
2021-2022
MECO Wave 1 data collection (continued)
Dutch, English (Canada), Estonian, Finnish, German, Greek, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Norwegian, Russian, Spanish (Argentina), Turkish
2022
First MECO (L1) paper out in Behavior Research Methods
View the Wave 1 MECO-L1 data here (13 languages from 13 data collection sites)
2022
MECO English as a second language (MECO L2) paper out in Studies in Second Language Acquisition
View the Wave 1 MECO-L2 data here (13 languages from 13 data collection sites)
2024
Albert Valdman Award for Outstanding Publication in the Studies of Second Language Acquisition journal
Read the announcement here
2023-2025
MECO Wave 2 data collection
Basque, Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Danish, English (United Kingdom), German, Hindi, Icelandic, Russian, Serbian, Spanish (Chile), Turkish
2024
ENRO paper out in Language Learning
Explore the ENRO data here (13 samples of L2 speakers of English from 13 countries, 7 sample of L1 speakers of English from 4 countries)
2025
ENRO paper receives Outstanding Article of the Year in Language Learning for 2024
Read the announcement here
2025
Paper published in Scientific Data on eye-movements during reading of Traditional Mongolian texts
2025
Wave 2 of the Multilingual Eye-movement Corpus (MECO): New text reading data across languages out in Scientific Data
Explore the Wave 2 (MECO-L1) data here (14 languages, 16 data collection sites)
2025
Wave 2 (MECO-L2) expansion: New data on text reading in English as a second language
Explore the Wave 2 (MECO-L2) data here (14 languages, 16 data collection sites)
2025-
Wave 3 data collection
Adyghe, Chinese (Traditional), Czech, Mongolian (Traditional), Polish, Turkish, Vietnamese
Data collection of an additional 13 languages is in progress. We are always looking for more collaborators that are interested in extending MECO to new languages and participant samples. If you are interested in joining the team, please contact us