Validity of Highlighting on Text Comprehension

In this study, 38 university students were tested with a Chinese reading task on an LED display under different task conditions for determining the effects of the highlighting and its validity on comprehension performance on light-emitting diodes (LED) display for Chinese reading Four levels of validity (0%, 33%, 67% and 100%) and a control condition with no highlighting were tested Each subject was required to perform the five experimental conditions in which different passages were read and comprehended The results showed that the condition with 100% validity of highlighting was found to have better comprehension performance than other validity levels and conditions with no highlighting The comprehension score of the condition without highlighting effect was comparatively lower than those highlighting conditions with distracters, though not significant.