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Kärbla, Triinu; Uibu, Krista; Männamaa, Mairi – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2021
Good readers use various comprehension strategies to understand texts. However, many students lack knowledge on how to purposefully and effectively use text comprehension strategies. In this experimental study, the effectiveness of teaching text comprehension strategies on vocabulary and text comprehension at literal, inferential and evaluative…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Reading Comprehension, Reading Strategies, Speed Reading
Yen, Tran Thi Ngoc – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2012
Reading fluency plays an important part in academic achievement at colleges and universities. Speed reading courses, along with repeated reading and extensive reading, are popularly used methods to help students increase their reading speed. Several studies have shown the positive influence of a speed reading course in L2/FL on students' reading…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Speed Reading, Reading Fluency, Reading Rate
Underwood, Paul; Myskow, Gordon; Hattori, Takahiko – Journal of International Education Research, 2012
This study investigated the effects of a six-month course in speed reading in three areas of reading proficiency development: 1) general reading comprehension, 2) knowledge of high-frequency vocabulary, and 3) reading-rate and accuracy. The participants (N = 105) were Japanese students studying English as a foreign language in Grade 10 at a…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Instruction, Foreign Countries, Speed Reading
Macalister, John – Reading in a Foreign Language, 2010
Fluent reading is essential for successful comprehension. One dimension of reading fluency is reading rate, or reading speed. Because of the importance of reading fluency, fluency development activities should be incorporated into classroom practice. One activity that meets the fluency development conditions proposed by Nation (2007) is speed…
Descriptors: Speed Reading, Reading Fluency, Reading Rate, Reading Instruction
Moore, Gladys B. – J Reading, 1970
Descriptors: Evaluation Criteria, Reading Comprehension, Reading Instruction, Reading Programs
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

Journal of Reading, 1983
Presents comments and suggestions on school superintendents' reading habits; the need for teaching study skills and vocational education vocabulary; and methods for teaching information gathering skills and speed reading and for motivating students to gather research materials. (AEA)
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Learning Activities, Reading Habits, Reading Instruction

Clarke, David F. – System, 1986
Describes an integrated series of computer-assisted reading (CAR) materials under development at the University of East Anglia in Norwich. The discussion indicates some of the problems in teaching reading with computers, describes the framework of the CAR project, and gives specific examples of activities. (SED)
Descriptors: Cohesion (Written Composition), Computer Assisted Instruction, Courseware, Foreign Countries
Greene, Frank P., Ed. – 1972
This is one of two volumes of papers drawn from the twenty-first annual meeting of the National Reading Conference held in 1971. Focusing on junior college and college reading programs and problems, the 40 papers are arranged into the following categories: designs for programs, special admission students, ethnically different students, adult…
Descriptors: Adult Reading Programs, Conference Reports, Higher Education, Individualized Programs