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| Title: |
Gliding text: a new aid to improve the reading performance of poor readers by subconscious gaze control |
| Author: |
Krischer, C. C. Coenen, R. Heckner, M. Hoeppner, D. Meissen, R. |
| Appeared in: |
Educational research |
| Paging: | Volume 36 (1994) nr. 3 pages 271-283 |
| Year: |
1994 |
| Contents: |
In support of efforts at reducing the number of dyslexics and illiterates in industrialized countries it is proposed, for the first time, to use gliding text - as known in television subtitles - as a method of text display to help those learning to read. Beginners, having the difficult task of precisely directing their gaze letter by letter along the line of text, experience with gliding text automatic gaze guidance as in so-called 'optokinetic nystagmus'. This subconscious gaze control allows beginners to pay more attention to contextual processing. First training courses have shown that exercises with gliding text are very efficient. Reading difficulties were eliminated for 21 second-grade elementary school children in only 24 training sessions, each of 15 min duration. The mean reading speed increased from ten to 24 words per minute (WPM). |
| Publisher: |
Routledge |
| Source file: |
Elektronische Wetenschappelijke Tijdschriften |
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