Description - Silent Reading, with Special Reference to Methods for Developing Speed; A Study in the Psychology and Pedagogy of Reading by John Anthony O'Brien
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1921 Excerpt: ...in silent reading to the devising of means of inhibiting them is rather a far cry. Their inhibition is another matter. And the validity of the former conclusion does not depend upon the successful execution of the latter. Various devices have been employed to inhibit articulation. Secor reports that whistling and the uttering of the alphabet aloud "completely removed all traces of articulatory movement, so far as the possibility of discovering this by introspection is concerned." Though the saying aloud of a letter or word would apparently engage the musculature of articulation during the moment of actual utterance, there would still remain the possibility of inner movement during the intervals between the words which would be likely to escape introspection. To guard against such interstitial movements, the subjects were requested to read while prolonging a letter as much as possible. This served but to verify the results of the previous introspection--that no movement occurred. In the writer's judgment, however, even this last method does not necessarily remove the possibility of a faint, subtle, vestigial movement of some of the smaller articulatory muscles which are obviously not employed in the simple prolongation of a letter. Pintner had his subjects count aloud the series 13, 14, 15, 16; 13, 14, 15, 16; etc., while reading silently. The pronunciation of these numbers requires a more elaborate musculature of articulation than the simple letters of the alphabet used in Secor's experiment. The introspection of Pintner's two subjects reported a complete absence of articulatory movement, though audition still remained in the case of one of the subjects. Incidentally the introspection of the latter observer casts an interesting ray of light upon t...
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