There is a very important fact about eye movement that you need to know. If you record the eye movements of someone who is reading, you will notice that, from time to time, the reader goes back and looks again at something he has read before; in other words, he regresses to an earlier part of the text, probably because he realises he does not understand the passage properly.
Then he comes back to where he left off and continues reading. At one time, it was thought that regression was a fault, but it is in fact a very necessary activity in efficient reading.
There are several different kinds of faults in reading, which are usually exaggerated with foreign learners.
The most common one is that most people read slowly than they should. There is no rate at which people ought to read, of course: it depends on your purpose in reading; how difficult the language is, how unfamiliar the material is and so on.
But most people read everything at the same slow speed, and do not seem to realise that they can read faster or slower as required. Other people say the words to themselves, or much their lips-------- these habits slow the reader down to something near speaking speed, which is, of course much slower than reading speed.
Another habit which can slow you down is following the line with your finger or with pen. If you want to be able to read faster, the secret is simply to practice under timid conditions.
This means that you should give yourself certain amount of time to read with understanding, then check your time when you have finished.
Students who have practiced fast reading even for an hour a week, have shown average improvement of over 50% over a term of ten weeks' duration.
Reading fast does not necessarily mean reading with less comprehension it means affixing all the necessary skills in reading. The purpose of your reading determines how much time you give in to reading.
For those who find it difficult to pronounce ambiguous words while reading, its of great relevant to always check the dictionary for such words, you become master of them and when next you come across them, you don't just pronounce them but you already know the meaning and that gives you better understanding while reading...........
~Wallace M.C study skills in English
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