■提高阅读效率在各种学术领域至关重要,专业和临床领域。以前的研究,主要来自一个实验室,已经表明,通过文本淡入淡出的外部施加的时间限制可以增强具有不同阅读能力和不同语言的儿童和成人的阅读流畅性。
■在本研究中,我们的目标是在意大利读者中复制和扩展以前的结果。进行了三个实验(N=90):(i)研究连续衰落与逐字符衰落相比的影响,(Ii)调查扩大字母间距对阅读加速结果的影响,和(iii)通过比较加速读数与模拟非加速过程来探测读数增益是否可以可靠地离线观察(在加速之后)。
■总的来说,结果证实了先前的发现,表明参与者在阅读加速过程中阅读速度提高了40%,同时保持相同的精度水平。连续衰落在提高阅读速度方面比字符衰落更有效,而较大的字母间距并没有显着影响阅读速度的增益。尽管我们样本的非临床性质及其数量限制了潜在的概括,考虑到初始阅读时间的个体差异,数据表明,相对于非加速阅读,阅读加速会导致更大的离线速度增量。
■放在一起,这些发现为阅读加速程序作为多课程培训计划的一部分的未来应用提供了有价值的见解,以提高各种临床和非临床人群的阅读能力。
UNASSIGNED: Enhancing reading efficiency is of paramount importance in various academic, professional and clinical domains. Previous research, mostly from a single laboratory, has shown that externally imposed time constraints by means of text fading can enhance reading fluency in children and adults with varying reading abilities and in different languages.
UNASSIGNED: In the present study, we aimed at replicating and extending previous results in Italian readers. Three experiments (N = 90) were conducted: (i) to investigate the effects of continuous fading compared to character-wise fading, (ii) to investigate the influence of enlarged inter-letter spacing on reading acceleration outcomes, and (iii) to probe whether reading gains can be reliably observed off-line (after the acceleration) by comparing accelerated reading with an analog non-accelerated procedure.
UNASSIGNED: Overall, results corroborate previous findings revealing that participants read 40% faster during the reading acceleration procedure, while maintaining the same accuracy levels. Continuous fading proved to be more effective than character-wise fading in enhancing reading speed, while larger inter-letter spacing did not significantly affect the reading speed gain. Albeit the non-clinical nature of our sample and its numerosity circumscribe the potential generalization, taking into account individual differences in the initial reading time, data suggests that reading acceleration leads to larger off-line speed increments with respect to non-accelerated reading.
UNASSIGNED: Taken together, these findings offer valuable insights for the future application of reading acceleration procedures as part of multisession training programs for improving reading proficiency in a diverse range of clinical and non-clinical populations.