AN OVERVIEW ON READING COMPREHENSION AND READING SPEED

Reading comprehension may be one of the most important skills which is usually investigated by language specialists in the field of second and foreign language acquisition. It is also becoming more and more significant in the new knowledge economy, and remains the most useful human activity for converting information into knowledge, be it reading on paper or from the screen. The importance of reading as a key skill and of its sub-skills is well confirmed. In the same line, the present paper is an overview over different types of reading such as extensive and intensive reading as well as the relationship between reading speed and reading comprehension.