This study was to construct an instructional model of developing reading speed and comprehension. It was assumed that mental concentration processes were intervening variables and that the mental concentration processes were to be learned and develope...
This study was to construct an instructional model of developing reading speed and comprehension. It was assumed that mental concentration processes were intervening variables and that the mental concentration processes were to be learned and developed into the processes of reading speed and comprehension. It was hypothesized that if the longer subjects were taught mental concentration program, the more instructional items of reading procedural knowledge and information could they perceive and figure out, and that such learning processes were able to be analyzed and integrated into a new instruction model of learning speed reading and comprehension.
To verify the above hypothesis manipulated were two experimental studies in which two experimental groups were sampled. One group were secondary school teachers and the other one college students. They were taught the procedural knowledge and information of stimulating the mental concentration processes of reading behaviors.
It was verified that if the longer subjects were taught mental concentration program, the more instructional items of reading procedural knowledge and information could they perceive and figure out, and that such learning processes were able to be analyzed and integrated into a new instruction model of learning speed reading and comprehension. It was suggested that a newly designed model of reading instruction was to be a program of speed reading and comprehension education.