![]() ![]() I decided to do my entire grade 12 course as an essay instead of following the normal workload. Imo its something akin to the epics of gilgamesh" not something you could really call a novel by any stretch of the modern sense. This helpful comment from /u/-cupcake may offer some clarification. Tl dr (or speed read): suppressing your inner voice while reading is bad if you want to understand what you read.Įnglish is not my first language, sorry for any mistakes.Įdit 2: some people seem to be conflating speed reading with simply reading quickly. Nonetheless, there is reason to be skeptical about these techniques as well, see the above-cited paper. Note: This post is specifically about the effects of subvocalization elimination on reading speed and comprehension, not other techniques in speed reading such as the elimination or reduction of eye movements. Read more, read different kinds of text and improve your vocabulary to enhance your reading speed. Language skill is therefore at the heart of reading speed. ![]() So is there a way to read faster while understanding? The review states that reading is based on language, rather than a purely visual process. If you want to read for comprehension and retention, do so with normal reading. If you seek a specific piece of information and know the material beforehand, it makes sense to skim. There exists a fundamental trade-off between speed and accuracy in reading. ![]() The study concludes that there is no magic bullet for reading quickly and actually understanding what you are reading. Trying to remove it to improve reading speed will ironically make you a worse reader. This is false and terrible advice.Ī large review of the science behind reading shows that suppressing the inner voice, also called subvocalization, is detrimental to comprehension. The advice is to simply scan the words in a text with the result of increasing reading speed dramatically while maintaining comprehension. Lately, I've been seeing posts and comments here about how one can speed up one's reading speed by eliminating the "inner voice". Example: Hello.Įxplanation of our link flairs Join our /r/bookclub Don't forget /new! Filter by Flair AMA Weekly Thread Mod PostĪma Check out this week's Thread Calendar
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