Based on the analysis of 190 studies (18,573 participants), we estimate that the average
silent reading rate for adults in English is 238 words per minute (wpm) for non-fiction and …

The prospect of speed reading—reading at an increased speed without any loss of
comprehension—has undeniable appeal. Speed reading has been an intriguing concept for …

The same comprehension processes underlie both reading and auding, so the central
process for understanding spoken or written language can be called" rauding." Rauding …

Although text readability has traditionally been measured based on simple linguistic
features, recent studies have employed natural language processing techniques to develop …

Background Advances in natural language processing (NLP) and computational linguistics
have facilitated major improvements on traditional readability formulas that aim at predicting …

Assessment of text readability is important for assigning texts at the appropriate level to
readers at different proficiency levels. The present research approached readability …

The purpose of this book is to introduce the research on readability, defined here as reading
ease. The first part of the book covers how people read. A series of national literacy surveys …

There is a consensus that the incidental vocabulary learning stemming from reading is an
essential complement to the explicit teaching of vocabulary(eg, Coady & Huckin, 1997; …

Studies on the factors that determine word naming speed have been conducted in a number
of languages. In this study two objectives were pursued:(1) to contrast the effects of the …

In reading a person translates strings of graphic symbols into meaning by using a variety of
processes. The reader decodes letters, forms word percepts, accesses word meanings …