{"content":[{"text":"African Research Review Vol. 3 (1), 2009. Pp. 399-413","bbox":{"left":0.259712,"top":0.05546,"width":0.526721,"height":0.016743}},{"text":"According to Oyinloye (2004), language is a method by which a person \n expresses his thoughts and feelings in such a way that the person can be \n understood by others. Language refers to that specific human possession \n which is used for communication in the society. Communication is an \n important means by which people describe and project their inner and outer \n world, share ideas and feelings and exchange information.","bbox":{"left":0.12857,"top":0.123252,"width":0.741863,"height":0.113348}},{"text":"Reading involves the meaningful interpretation of words, phrases and \n sentences requiring all types of thinking such as judgemental, imaginative, \n creative, critical and evaluative. Reading is a process of extracting meanings \n from the written language. It is an important skill in language teaching. It is a \n process of communication involving the writer and the reader, the encoder \n and the decoder (Ogunsiji, 2004).","bbox":{"left":0.12857,"top":0.25858,"width":0.7416450000000001,"height":0.113348}},{"text":"Silent reading involves reading without vocalization. No sound and no noise \n while students read silently. Vocal reading involves vocalization or talking \n out loud. It involves reading aloud to the other people’s hearing. This activity \n is done so that one can find out how fluently the students can read (Gbenedio, \n 1996). According to Okwilagwe (1998) children who seem to be poorly \n endowed with general ability have more difficulty in mastering the process of \n learning to read than those who are well endowed.","bbox":{"left":0.12857,"top":0.393907,"width":0.7421490000000001,"height":0.13271}},{"text":"Robinson (1972) describes a child’s ability to read print as obviously \n connected with the quality of his sight. These ability or skills include visual \n acuity, visual discrimination, left to right orientation and visual memory. \n Visual acuity refers to the fact that a child’s ability to read print is closely \n connected with the quality of his sight. Visual discrimination involves the \n power to discriminate among shapes. With left to right orientation, the \n student must learn how to move his eyes smoothly along the page to avoid \n backward movements. Reading can never be fully efficient until the child has \n mastered this process of reading from left to right because order and memory \n not only requires the student to perceive words but also to recognize them. \n This involves some forms of recognition of words or letters. Some students \n appear to remember a word in one lesson and seem to have forgotten the \n word in another lesson.","bbox":{"left":0.12857,"top":0.548395,"width":0.741862,"height":0.24867499999999998}},{"text":"Since comprehension is an essential ingredient of reading, it is necessary for \n the reader to be ready to learn and be matured in knowledge and \n understanding. Codes and Jenkins (1998) maintain that comprehension","bbox":{"left":0.12857,"top":0.81905,"width":0.741901,"height":0.05526399999999998}},{"text":"400","bbox":{"left":0.822832,"top":0.899087,"width":0.04727300000000001,"height":0.023644}},{"text":"Copyright © IAARR 2009: www.afrrevjo.com \n Indexed African Journals Online: www.ajol.info","bbox":{"left":0.12857,"top":0.906769,"width":0.414435,"height":0.033280999999999894}}],"images_bbox":[],"images_bbox_not_text_overlap":[]}