From: utzoo!utcsrgv!utcsstat!wagner Newsgroups: net.nlang Title: Re: non-phonetic reading Article-I.D.: utcsstat.279 Posted: Tue Aug 3 03:47:19 1982 Received: Tue Aug 3 04:37:21 1982 References: pur-ee.469 One thing that might help guard against sub-vocalization is a device they used with us in grade school. It was a film strip projector specially equiped with a device that limited the view to a small area of the screen (typically a line at a time, but there were options to make it only a flying spot about 2 words wide on the line, or up to several lines high and no spot). Using this special projector, we were shown stories. The object, clearly, was to teach us to read without backtrack. A second objective, always less important, was to up the speed and get us to read quickly. It didnt work entirely for me...I sometimes still backtrack a whole paragraph, convinced that I have missed something. Only once in my recollection over the last few weeks did I actually miss a line, so clearly my fears are unfounded in the main. And yet I do it about once every 5 pages or so, depending on the content. But I deviate from the point - in flying spot mode with the speed up, there was never time to vocalize the words. If you didnt recognize the word by sight alone, there was no hope of going back and trying to pronounce it for recognition. We were taught to forge forward and go for comprehension of the rest when we missed a word, and only to go back if at the end of a unit (sentence or paragraph, dont remember which), we were still in the dark as to the meaning. While this helps reading quickly a lot, I find I sometimes just ignore words I dont know, and never bother to look them up (a bad habit, I am sure). Does anyone have any references to this sort of stuff? I would be interested in reading more about this phase of learning, now that my interest has been roused. Michael Wagner, UTCS