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This paper investigates the influence of different text presentation on the size of Chinese reading unit with word segmentataion task by Chinese as a second language learners. The participants were 30 Korean and 27 Thai, who were learning Chinese in Beijing Language and Culture University. They were divided into two language proficiency levels (intermediate and advanced) according to their Chinese words size and were required to add spaces in four Chinese passages. The results showed that: (1) the Chinese reading unit was smaller for Korean intermediate learners than it was for Thai learners. However, it was the same for advanced learners of both language backgrounds; (2) for Korean learners, the reading unit increased with the improvement of Chinese proficiency, while it would not change for Thai learners.