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Page 24 - ... from the end of one line to the beginning of the next, but writes them just below the rest of the word and draws a loop around them.
Page 4 - The eye record made by the light reflected from the cornea is shown in the lines cd and ef. The line cd represents the reading of the first line of the paragraph, and the line ef the reading of the second. The vertical lines of dots show the fixations of the eye. The horizontal line de shows the movement of the eye from the end of the first line to the beginning of the second. Since each dot on the film represents one fiftieth of a second, this movement from line to line consumed two fiftieths of...
Page 87 - The boys' arrows were nearly gone so they sat down on the grass and stopped hunting. Over at the edge of the woods they saw Henry making a bow to a little girl who was coming down the road. She had tears in her dress and also tears in her eyes. She gave Henry a note which he brought over to the group of young hunters. Read to the boys it caused great excitement. After a minute but rapid examination of their weapons they ran down the valley. Does were standing at the edge of the lake making an excellent...
Page 4 - ... of light is intercepted at each vibration. These vibrations produce on the film a line of dots rather than a solid line, each dot representing exactly one twenty-fifth of a second. Since the film moves continuously in a vertical...
Page 8 - ... the altered world. This notion of the outer world inevitably building up a sort of mental duplicate of itself if we only give it time, is so easy and natural in its vagueness that one hardly knows how to start to criticise it. One thing, however, is obvious, namely that the manner in which we now become acquainted with complex objects need not in the least resemble the manner in which the original elements of our consciousness grew up.
Page 56 - ... fifty-four subjects including both good and poor readers. 4. A comparison of reading rate with eye-voice span shows that rate of reading and width of eye-voice span increase together. There is a high positive correlation between these two factors of reading. 5. A negative correlation exists between the eye-voice span and the number of fixations per line. As the span increases in width the number of fixations per line decreases. 6. Little correlation is evident between eye-voice span and the number...
Page 3 - The method consists of photographing a beam of light from a tungs-arc bulb reflected first to the cornea of the eye from silvered glass mirrors and then from the cornea through a camera lens to a moving kinetoscope film. The direction of the pencil of light is changed with each movement of the eye. While the subject reads, a photograph is made which records the horizontal movements of the eye as a sharply focused line upon the film.
Page 103 - The development of the reading process may therefore be traced through three stages. First, the most primitive or immature stage of oral reading where the eye, the voice, and the meaning are all focused at the same point. Secondly, the more mature stage of oral reading where there is a considerable span between the eye and the voice, with the recognition of meaning occurring at a point nearer to the position of the eye. Thirdly, the stage of silent reading where the reader is entirely relieved of...
Page 1 - In oral reading the eye always moves at a greater or less distance in advance of the voice. For a mature reader the eye leads the voice by a wide span, which at times amounts to as much as seven or eight words. The immature reader, however, such as a pupil in the primary grades, has a very narrow span. For such a reader the eye does not move from...
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