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A view of education similar to mine

“If the colleges were better, if they really had it, you would need to get the police at the gates to keep order in the inrushing multitude.”
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Automaticity in reading

Following are a number of statements extracted from What Research Has To Say About Reading Instruction
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What is meant by automaticity and automatization?

automatic largely or wholly involuntary, especially as with a reflex acting or done spontaneously or unconsciously automatize to make automatic [noun derivations: automatization the process of making automatic; automaticity the state or condition of being automatic]
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Bibliography: automaticity

Anderson J R [1982] Acquisition of Cognitive Skill [Psychological Review 89.4]
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Bibliography: testing

Alderson J C & Hughes A [Eds] [1991] Language Testing in the 1990s [Basingstoke: Macmillan]
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