Silent reading
Silent reading means reading without saying the words out loud.[1]
Long ago, people didn't have spaces between words in their writing, so it was unusual to read silently.[2][3]
Some people think silent reading can cause problems with thinking, but many schools still encourage it.[4]
Reading out loud uses more parts of the brain because it involves speaking and reading at the same time.[5][6][7]
Silent Reading Media
A Catholic monk reading in a monastery library
This picture shows the acuity of foveal vision in reading (during one eye stop). The lower line of text simulates the acuity of vision with the relative acuity percentages.
References
- ↑ Lynch, Matthew. Silent Reading: Everything You Need to Know (in en-US). The Edvocate (2022-06-06). Retrieved 2023-03-09.
- ↑ The Silent Readers. Alberto Manguel, Chapter 2 of A History of Reading (New York; Viking, 1996). Retrieved 2013-06-20.
- ↑ How to Read Medieval Handwriting (Paleography). chaucer.fas.harvard.edu.
- ↑ Hardach, Sophie. Why you should read this out loud (in en). www.bbc.com. Retrieved 2022-09-29.
- ↑ Coltheart, Max. Models of reading aloud: Dual-route and parallel-distributed-processing approaches. Psychological Review 100 (4) (1 January 1993). p. 589–608. doi:10.1037/0033-295X.100.4.589.
- ↑ The use of the orthographic lexicon in reading kana words. The Journal of General Psychology 117 (3) (July 1990). p. 311–323.
- ↑ Nonword reading: comparing dual-route cascaded and connectionist dual-process models with human data. J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform 38 (5) (October 2012). p. 1268–1288. doi:10.1037/a0026703.