It's a wonderful holiday gift for different persons to learn high speed reading. This method helps psychic to be in a comfortable state during the working day and maintains a high vitality due to the small energy consumption to make any intellectual work. You shouldn't think that it's a methodology only for raising the tempo of reading. Text perception is also remade according to it:
- The ability of choice increases that is rather nice with the great variety of info;
- The other thing is the realization of read info. So, we should say that the efficiency of reading is more valuable here than the speed of it.
The main causes of slack reading are the next:
Text is produced to oneself that is named articulation. Such approach equals our reading aloud with reading to ourselves. We are trying to listen to our internal speech and the perception is rather bad this way.
2. Narrow view field. We perceive individual words, reading them one after another and following the whole range from left to right. The researches say that there're two states of our eyes - the state of stop and the state of altering the point of fixation. The greater sphere of view, the more info is perceived at every stop and the quantity of stops is less for the similar amount of text.
3. There's also such term as regression, when we go back to the words we understood poorly or didn't understand at all. People who read slowly can get the number of regressions per a hundred words of texts as high as 50. The notice of a reader is one of the causes for regression and the text will situate on the surface of it. Such bad habits must be clamped down and the new habits must be created to reach the ability of quick reading. This requires:
- Don't produce the sounds of words while reading the text only with your eyes.
- You must strive to read syntagms - the units that are larger than the words in the text. These blocks are sentences and paragraphs.
- To train the attention the way, that each syntagma is perceived sensibly and you were not to go back to it anymore. Such method may be even one of the gifts for men if it's useful for your beloved.
The first four weeks is the period for us to read only with eyes leaving articulation. There is a method of central speech obstacle that is utilized to suppress articulation. It is relied on the fact that while reading the peculiar rhythm of sound picked out in such a way that it never coincides with an internal rhythm of a text. Then you should begin trainings as following:
- During the first week read any topic to yourself tapping the rhythm for about 10-15 minutes.
- During the next week read 2-3 compositions every day tapping the rhythm. This time you shouldn't understand the text and pay attention only to the rhythm.
- The third week is the week when you would pay the attention to the implication, but not to the rhythm. You must track the rhythm, but don't pay a plenty of attention to the mistakes.
- During the last seven days you must read 2 topics every day and follow both aims (following the rhythm and the implication) with equal notice. Moreover, reading another article, close your eyes and mentally repeat the content taping the rhythm. A lot of persons will find this methodology helpful, so you can use it as one of the anniversary gifts.
Posted on February 7th, 2009 | filed under Uncategorized |