Marina P. T. Leite’s interest in languages started early. “After living in Canada as a kid and being exposed to English and French, I became very fascinated about language learning and have fostered this interest in university as well,” says Leite. Leite completed a BA in Theoretical and Descriptive Linguistics at the Federal University of Minas…
MECO collaborators Victor Kuperman, Nadia Lana (McMaster University, Canada) and Olga Parshina (Middlebury College, US) write about MECO for The Conversation Canada. Read the full article here.
Google Scholar’s 2025 Scholar Metrics on publications in the last five years list MECO papers in several highly ranked journals: Behavior Research Methods features MECO’s Wave 1 data on first language reading, currently the 35th most cited paper in the journal. Studies in Second Language Acquisition is the top ranked journal in the Language &…
Wave 2 reading data in first language (L1) and English as a second language (L2) in Basque, Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Danish, English (United Kingdom), German, Hindi, Icelandic, Russian, Serbian, Spanish (Chile) and Turkish is now available! Data from 654 participants was collected by collaborators from 16 labs in 15 countries, bringing the…
Growing up in the grasslands of Inner Mongolia, Yaqian Borogjoon Bao first learned to read and write in the Traditional Mongolian script, a vertical writing system that is read from top to bottom. It wasn’t until she started to learn Chinese and English that she recognized how unique her first language was. “It made me…
We’re excited to share that our paper “Rethinking First Language-Second Language Similarities and Differences in English Proficiency: Insights From the ENglish Reading Online (ENRO) Project” received the 2024 Recipient of Outstanding Article of the Year in Language Learning! “A large-scale, multi-author, and multi-site study, the article by Siegelman et al. exemplifies cutting-edge developments in language…
Wave 2 Collaborator Yaqian Borogjoon Bao received the Keith Rayner Memorial Award for Best Oral Presentation for her talk titled “Comparative Analysis of Saccadic Main Sequences in Horizontal and Vertical Reading” at the 22nd European Conference on Eye Movements (ECEM 2024) at Maynooth University in Ireland! This award recognizes outstanding early career contributions to research on eye…
Our Wave 1 paper on MECO L2 data, “Text reading in English as a second language: Evidence from the Multilingual Eye-Movements Corpus” received the 2023 Albert Valdman Award for Outstanding Publication in Studies of Second Language Acquisition. “We would like to express our gratitude to the review board of SSLA for selecting our article (“Text reading in…
