Building Comprehension in Silent Reading

Abstract

Author's summary.— Procedures used in the Menlo School and Junior College for speeding up comprehension in silent reading in the foreign languages, illustrated in terms of first semester materials for a beginning high‐school class in Spanish.

Teaching Foreign Languages

“…Pargment (178) discussed the nature of reading which should, he said, be "direct." Blayne (14), on the other hand, would separate the work in silent reading from oral reading, but still suggested oral work in the form of questions and discussions. Koch (129) wrote along much the same lines with the added suggestion that teachers receive special training in reading work.…”