Volume 22, No. 1 Special Issue: In Honor of Paul Nation Speed reading courses and their effect on reading authentic texts: A preliminary investigation

Speed reading courses and their effect on reading authentic texts: A preliminary investigation

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Volume 22, No. 1 Special Issue: In Honor of Paul Nation
contributor.author:
Macalister, John
date.accessioned:
2020-05-22T02:10:05Z
date.available:
2020-05-22T02:10:05Z
date.issued:
2010-04
description.abstract:
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 reading. An important question is whether reading speed gains measured in words per minute on controlled speed reading texts transfer to other types of texts. This paper reports on a preliminary, small-scale investigation of this question. The findings suggest that a speed reading course may contribute to faster reading speeds on other types of texts, but there remains a need for further experimental research into the impact of speed reading courses.
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endingpage:
116
identifier.doi:
10125/66649
identifier.issn:
1539-0578
identifier.uri:
http://hdl.handle.net/10125/66649
number:
1
publisher:
University of Hawaii National Foreign Language Resource Center Center for Language & Technology
rfl.topic:
The Reading Process
site_url:
/rfl/item/211
startingpage:
104
subject:
reading speed reading rate reading fluency speed reading reading fluency development
title:
Speed reading courses and their effect on reading authentic texts: A preliminary investigation
type:
Article
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Text
volume:
22