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Howards, Melvin – 1970
The author discounts the effects of currently promoted speed reading programs as resulting in short-term effectiveness and disregarding a consideration of what constitutes good reading at any speed. He claims that the types and levels of transformations and interpretations, verbal and nonverbal, that must go into good reading are not susceptible…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Reading Processes, Reading Rate, Reading Skills
Pauk, Walter – 1968
Topics and practices related to college reading instruction are discussed. Reading is seen as a skill which permeates the entire process of study. Speed reading techniques such as increasing eye span, ceasing vocalizations, and reading vertically down the page are criticized as hampering rather than facilitating the comprehension process. The most…
Descriptors: College Programs, Reading Instruction, Reading Processes, Speed Reading
Leeson, Jeanne Tellier – Instructor, 1969
Part of a section, "4 Reading Techniques that Work.
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Reading Instruction, Reading Processes, Reading Rate

Smith, Frank – English Quarterly, 1972
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Decoding (Reading), Memory, Phonics

O'Reilly, Robert P.; Walker, James E. – Reading Research and Instruction, 1990
Examines selected research showing how the components of human information processing limit reading rates. Suggests that speed reading is impossible when the intent is to understand the message communicated by the text. Discusses limiting factors in processes of word recognition, working memory, and comprehension. Discusses evaluative and…
Descriptors: College Students, Postsecondary Education, Reading Comprehension, Reading Instruction
Sandberg, Karl C. – 1976
The word-identification approach has long been the basis for teaching reading in both native and second languages. Recent work has a new approach, particularly that of Frank Smith, who developed a feature analysis model of reading. As we can identify letters in different configurations or before all the strokes are completed, so can we identify…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Cognitive Processes, Memory, Psycholinguistics
McIntosh, Margaret E. – 1983
A variety of techniques for improving readers' analysis-by-synthesis abilities (rapid, efficient reading typical of highly skilled readers) are presented in this paper. The techniques discussed in the first part emphasize improving reading comprehension and include the following: (1) modifications of the cloze procedure (encouraging readers to use…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Reading Ability, Reading Comprehension, Reading Improvement
Just, Marcel Adam; Carpenter, Patricia A. – 1987
This book, intended for researchers in the psychology of reading and language, college students in psychology and education, teachers of reading, and educators in general, is designed to be used in a course on the psychology of reading or the psychology of language comprehension. The book contains the following chapters: (1) "An Introduction and…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Decoding (Reading), Dyslexia, Higher Education
Bradtmueller, Weldon G. – 1978
Compressed speech (speed listening), in which audiotapes are speeded up, is examined in this paper along with its relationship to the reading process. Among the topics discussed first are the close relationship between reading and listening, the rationale behind compressed speech, and the use of compressed speech in business communication, special…
Descriptors: Audiotape Recordings, Content Area Reading, Elementary Education, Intelligence
ERIC Clearinghouse on Reading and Communication Skills, Urbana, IL. – 1985
This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 28 titles deal with a variety of topics, including the following: (1) the usefulness of peer-shared reading information in primary-grade reading groups; (2) development and evaluation of a sustained silent reading program in…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Cognitive Processes, Computer Assisted Instruction, Doctoral Dissertations
MacKinnon, G. E., Ed.; Waller, T. Gary, Ed. – 1985
Intended to provide an outlet for systematic and substantive reviews, both empirical and theoretical, and for extended integrative reports of programatic research, this volume focuses on the nature of reading and reading disabilities, with implications for both theory and practice. The first chapter of the book reports on a long-term study of the…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Dyslexia, Elementary Education, Foreign Countries