The Need for Speed: Comprehension and Reading Speed
Posted: May 27th, 2012, 9:52 am
I've been reading a book titled Second Language Reading Research and Instruction (University of Michigan, 2009). In the book, Neil J Anderson (Brigham Young University) in his article “ACTIVE READING: The Research Base for a Pedagogical Approach in the Reading Classroom” talks about how comprehension fails when a person reads too slow. He says that researchers have found out that the minimum speed is about 180 words per minute, and that below that rate comprehension fails. We need to have a goal of at least 70% comprehension or better (comprehension = being able to understand and remember) to consider ourselves a successful average reader.
Randall Buth made a post on his blog about this back in 2011 "The Need for Some Speed in order to Read" http://www.biblicallanguagecenter.com/speed-to-read. This is a thread some may want to read and chime in on. There is also chart for timing yourself on Acts 23:1-11 to self-test how fast a person can read.
Randall Buth made a post on his blog about this back in 2011 "The Need for Some Speed in order to Read" http://www.biblicallanguagecenter.com/speed-to-read. This is a thread some may want to read and chime in on. There is also chart for timing yourself on Acts 23:1-11 to self-test how fast a person can read.