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Does Speed-Reading Training Work, and If So, Why? Effects of Speed-Reading Training and Metacognitive Training on Reading Speed, Comprehension and Eye Movements
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Klimovich, Marina; Tiffin-Richards, Simon P.; Richter, Tobias – Journal of Research in Reading, 2023
Background: Commercial speed-reading training programs are typically marketed with the promise to dramatically increase reading speed without impairing comprehension. From the perspective of reading psychology, it seems quite unlikely that speed-reading training can indeed have such effects. However, research on the effectiveness of modern…
Descriptors: Speed Reading, Reading Programs, Program Effectiveness, Metacognition
Inner Speech and Speed Reading: An Analysis of Written Texts Internalization
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Francy Lorena García; Edgar Willian Jurado Soto – HOW, 2024
Silent reading frequently entails engaging the "inner voice," a phenomenon in which individuals sub-vocally articulate words in their minds. This inner voice is understood to stem from the internalization process, wherein external verbal speech transitions into internal dialogue. However, the mechanisms through which foreign language…
Descriptors: Inner Speech (Subvocal), Speed Reading, Reading Rate, Reading Comprehension
Speed Reading/Scholarship Skills for Gifted High School Students.
Tompkins, Stephen R. – 1979
A speed reading/scholarship skills course was offered to college-bound students in the Dallas, Texas, school system in 1977-78. Approximately 1,700 students took the 60-day elective course in 20 different high schools. As measured by the Nelson-Denny Standardized Reading Test and compared to college freshman norms, students registered the…
Descriptors: College Bound Students, Gifted, Reading Instruction, Reading Programs
Demystifying "Speed Reading": A Practical Approach for Increasing Rate.
Dwyer, Edward J.; West, Russell F. – Forum for Reading, 1989
Investigates whether a freshman reading improvement training program will produce gains in reading rate (normal reading rate, not skimming). Finds positive results for the program. (SR)
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, Reading Comprehension, Reading Improvement, Reading Instruction
Speedway: The Action Way to Speed Read to Increase Reading Rate for Adults.
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Collins, Cathy – Reading Improvement, 1979
Reports an investigation of the effectiveness of "Speedway: The Action Way to Read" in increasing the reading rate and efficiency of adult readers. (FL)
Descriptors: Adults, Higher Education, Program Evaluation, Reading Comprehension
Multidisciplinary Aspects of College-Adult Reading; Seventeenth Yearbook of the National Reading Conference.
Schick, George B., Ed.; May, Merrill M., Ed. – 1968
Focusing on multidisciplinary aspects of college and adult reading, the 27 articles in this volume were drawn from the seventeenth annual meeting of the National Reading Conference held in 1967. Among the topics discussed in the articles are the following: psychological embarrassments of reading, rapid reading, reading rate, tutoring in a college…
Descriptors: Adult Reading Programs, College Students, Conference Reports, Content Area Reading
College Reading: Problems and Programs of Junior and Senior Colleges; Twenty-first Yearbook of the National Reading Conference. Volume II.
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