文档介绍：Lesson 12
Remembering What You Read
Unit Four
Techniques for Remembering
What You Read
One of the first steps in ing a more efficient and
flexible reader is learning to vary your reading rate.
This lesson will discuss several methods for increasing
and varying your reading rate.
EYE-MOVEMENT PATTERNS
Reading is primarily a thinking process. There are,
however, physical aspects of reading: your eyes
recognize words and transmit them in the form of
signals to the brain. The following brief overview of
the physical aspects of reading will familiarize you
with eye movement patterns and will help you
recognize habits that interfere with rate and
comprehension.
What Happens When You Read
Your eyes have the capacity to recognize words rapidly
and to transmit them in the form of signals to the brain.
Mental processes e involved as your brain
attaches meaning to the signals it receives. As these two
processes occur, prehend what you are reading.
To explain what occurs as your eyes move across a line
of print, let us look at some physical features of the eye
-movement process.
Left-to-Right Progression
Your eyes are already well trained to move in a
left-to-right pattern across the page. The speed of this
progression, however, is variable and can be
significantly increased with practice and training.
Fixation
As your eyes move across a line of print, they move
and stop, move and stop. When your eyes are in
motion, they do not see anything. When your eyes stop,
or focus, this is called a fixation. As your eyes move
across a line of print, then, they make a number of
stops, or fixations, and the number of fixations you
make per line is directly related to your reading
efficiency.
Eye Span
As your eyes stop, or fixate, while progressing from
left to right across the line, they see a certain number
of words or letters. The amount you see during each
fixation is called your eye span.
You may find that your eye span varies greatly
accor