Zamfira Denisa Adina, Di Dona Giuseppe, Battista Martina, De Benedetto Francesco, Ronconi Luca
School of Psychology, Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, Milan, Italy.
Division of Neuroscience, IRCCS San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy.
Front Psychol. 2024 Jul 31;15:1394579. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1394579. eCollection 2024.
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.
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.
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.
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.
在各个学术、专业和临床领域，提高阅读效率至关重要。先前的研究大多来自单一实验室，结果表明，通过文本褪色施加外部时间限制，能够提高不同阅读能力的儿童和成人以及不同语言使用者的阅读流畅性。
在本研究中，我们旨在复制并扩展先前针对意大利读者的研究结果。进行了三项实验（N = 90）：（i）研究连续褪色与逐字符褪色相比的效果；（ii）研究扩大字母间距对阅读加速结果的影响；（iii）通过将加速阅读与模拟非加速程序进行比较，探究加速阅读后能否离线可靠地观察到阅读收益。
总体而言，结果证实了先前的研究发现，即参与者在阅读加速过程中阅读速度提高了40%，同时保持相同的准确率。在提高阅读速度方面，连续褪色比逐字符褪色更有效，而较大的字母间距对阅读速度提升没有显著影响。尽管我们样本的非临床性质及其数量限制了潜在的普遍性，但考虑到初始阅读时间的个体差异，数据表明，与非加速阅读相比，阅读加速会带来更大的离线速度提升。
综上所述，这些发现为阅读加速程序作为多阶段训练计划的一部分在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。
