Read Faster Understand Better : Vol-2 (An Old and Rare Book)

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The explosion of knowledge and the printing technology have made accelerated reading a necessary condition of educated life. Communica tion from a writer to a reader has become in some senses more important than the communication from a speaker to a hearer in the present century. The Central Institute of Indian Languages which is chiefly concerned with verbal communication in its various aspects is naturally concerned about reading. It has succeeded in impressing upon those involved in formal education that neglecting reading is neglecting a major aspect of language performance. It has also succeeded in informing all educated persons irrespective of whether they are business managers, bankers, administrators, civil and military officials, university and college teachers or pursuing any other vocation that reading for business is. as important as reading for fun, enjoyment and knowledge.

It is gratifying that the first edition of the book has been widely circulated, I have every hope that this second edition revised and enlarged, will go a long way in filling up a gap in an area which is of such vital importance. I congratulate all those who are responsible for putting it together.

In 1971 the Ford Foundation conducted a summer orientation course in teaching improved reading for adults at the Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysore, India. I had previously conducted such a course at the Indian Institute of Administration, New Delhi, and was given the opportunity, with the able assistance of Dr. Chinna Chacko of the Institute, to introduce this course to selected students at CIIL. From their course work, students developed materials to teach effective reading skills at their own schools and colleges.

Interest has been maintained in improving reading skills, and ideas from this first Institute along with many other ideas gathered along the way have been carried into many different areas of South India.

This present volume READ FASTER, UNDERSTAND BETTER, is a culmination of those efforts. The Central Institute of Indian Languages and the creators of this book are to be congratulated for yet another proof of their continued contribution to the professional and literary growth of India.