Abstract: Moving window display technique was used to investigate the construction and integration of goal information under the control of the goal-focus. Readers read 24 paragraphs, which conveyed two characters’ attempts to accomplish independent subgoals to achieve a joint main goal. In all conditions, the success of the first subgoal was manipulated. It was varied by changing the last one or two sentences of Subgoal 1 section. The next subgoal was always completed, and a subsequent target region described the second character attempting to execute the main goal. In E. Richard & M. Singer(2001) research, post-target sentence reading time was longer in the completed condition than in the uncompleted condition. The results suggested that the target sentence severed as signal primed the integration of goal information. Experiment 1 tested E. Richard & M. Singer(2001) study by changing directly competed condition into indirectly completed condition. The result indicated that the post-target sentence reading time was longer in the indirectly completed condition than in the uncompleted condition. The results suggested that the target sentence severed as signal did prime the integration of goal information. Experiment 2 explored whether readers constructed goal information under control of goal-focus in a here-and-now way. The result demonstrated that there was no significant difference between the post-target sentence reading time in the indirectly completed condition and in the directly completed condition. It was safe to say readers would construct goal information under control of goal-focus in the course of reading comprehension. This research generally indicated activation and integration of information was different with the changing of narration. Under control of goal-focus, the construction of information in reading would be a here-and-now way. Thus either the constructionist theory or memory-based text processing view only stated one facet of information processing in text reading.

Key words: goal-based construction and integration, resonance, dual-processing view, focus