Abstract: Moving window method was used to investigate the mode of information integration in text-reading. Subjects were 120 university students from South China Normal University. According to whether the elaboration on a characteristic of the protagonist was consistent with subsequent target action carried out by the protagonist, the experimental materials were divided into two categories: consistent version and qualified version, and each passage had two target sentences in different places. In experiment 1a&1b, the mode of information integration in long-memory was investigated, and in experiment 2a&2b, that in work-memory was investigated. The reading time of two target sentences were analyzed respectively with Paired-Samples t Test. The results showed that in qualified condition, the background information both in long-memory and work-memory were integrated completely with the present information (called coordinating integration), and what’s more, through this integrating, not only the coherence of text-reading was maintained, but also the relative background information was constructed to be an information chunk.

Key words: text-reading, background information, coordinating integration, constructing