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Introduction

Reading skills are not only essential for career advancement, but are also an essential survival skill. From day-to-day, we have to read a lot of important information from notices, letters, signposts, consumer information leaflets on products and commercials among many others. Therefore, it difficult for a person who does not know how to read to survive. Therefore, reading skills is one of the essential life skills that should be emphasized at institutions of learning. Learners reading skills should be horned during their early years at school so that those who drop out from school also acquire the skills. Institutions ...

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Reading is a crucial skill in life. Therefore, it is one of the core skills that learners must acquire. Duggan (2009) states that reading comprehension is affected by many internal and external factors and visual processing. Reading comprehension is defined as the degree of understanding a text (Jager-Adams, 1994). It does not only include the amount of reading time, but also the ability to trigger information from the text. According to Ouellette (2006), the end goal of reading is comprehension. Therefore, reading time does not provide a full picture of reading comprehension because one can quickly skim the text ...

on students of Melbourne University Reading is one of the first skills taught and applied during the first years of education in schools across the globe. Duggan (2009) expressed adept readers showed to have fast reading times as the most reliable indicator for their skills, while text comprehension was also an indicator, but a more difficult one to assess. In opposition, the experience of reading can be either improved or weakened by exterior elements different than the reader himself. Irlen’s trials (as stated by Morrison, 2011), claimed that reading black words on pale backgrounds, such as white, caused ...