Teaching method for reading involves displaying text to be read, highlighting a text to be read, having text passage read by student and highlighting next passage

摘要

The method involves displaying text to be read on a display device, optically highlighting a passage of text to be read, having the highlighted text passage read by the student and highlighting an adjacent passage of text to be read next. The adjacent highlighting is determined according to a criterion, which may be measured by one of these methods: a) for reading aloud, or silently, measuring the eye movement and stare direction of the student, measuring the time from the beginning of the highlighting until the eye reaches a fixed point and comparing the first time with a second typical time to see if they lie within a given range; b) for reading aloud, measuring a first time from the beginning of the highlighting until the beginning or the end of the time that the students pronounces the first phoneme of the text and using speech-recognition software to distinguish between correct an incorrect reading and comparing the time with a typical time; c) for reading aloud, measuring the eye movement and stare direction and the time from when the eye reaches a fixation point to when the student pronounces the first phoneme and using speech-recognition software to distinguish between correct an incorrect reading and comparing the time with a typical time; d) for reading aloud, using speech-recognition software to determine whether the text to be read and the point of text to be read fulfill relevant criteria. An INDEPENDENT CLAIM is included for a computer program for implementing the method.