“…First, the results of the word-level measures analyses replicated those of previous studies, which state that older readers need more fixation time for comprehending text. However, we could not determine the effect of age on average saccade length, which is also consistent with the scope of the findings of a recent study by Zhao et al (2019). Second, with regards to the fixation time measures on target words, older readers fixated on these words for a longer time and re-fixated on them more often than younger readers, which also mirrors previous findings of studies on both Chinese and alphabetic text reading (Kliegl et al, 2004;Rayner et al, 2006;Rayner, 2009;Rayner, Castelhano & Yang, 2010;Kemper & McDowd, 2006;Kemper & Liu, 2007;Paterson, McGowan & Jordan, 2013a;Paterson, McGowan & Jordan, 2013b;Paterson, McGowan & Jordan, 2013c;McGowan et al, 2014;Zang et al, 2016;Wang et al, 2018a;Wang et al, 2018b).…”