Nila Banton Smith

Nila Banton Smith (1889 – 1976) Malama ce, marubuciya, shugaba kuma ƙwararriya a fannin koyarwar karatu. Ta buga littattafai da takardu da yawa kan wannan batu tun daga shekarar 1922.   Ita ce farfesa a Jami'ar New York.  Ta kasance mai goyon bayan "ƙwarewar harshe" da kuma "dukkanin kalma" hanyoyin karatu.  

 Aiki 
Smith ta koyar da makarantun gwamnati a Detroit.  Don karatun digirinta na digiri a Jami'ar Columbia ta rubuta An Historical Analysis of American Reading Instruction; a cikin shekarar 1934 Silver Burdett ne ya buga wannan a matsayin An Historical Analysis of American Reading Instruction, littafi ne game da tarihin ilimin karatu a Amurka. 

Smith shi ne shugaban Ƙungiyar Karatu ta Duniya.  Ta koyar da shekaru da yawa a Makarantar Koyarwar Kolumbia ta Lincoln Teachers College.  Daga baya ta zama darektan Cibiyar Karatu a Jami'ar New York.  Smith tayi nazari kuma ta rubuta game da hanyoyi daban-daban don karantarwa da koyarwa. 

Smith ta wallafa jagorar karatu a cikin shekarar 1957 mai suna Speed Reading Made Easy". An sake fitar da shi sau da yawa har zuwa kusan shekarar 1987. Littafin ya ƙunshi shawarwari game da kalmomi masu mahimmanci, nazarin sakin layi, nau'in labarin da skimming. Wannan aikin farko ya kasance jagora mai amfani ga yadda ake karantawa da kyau. Ta wallafa Read Fast a kan wannan batu. 

 Martaba 
An sake fitar da bugu na musamman na An Historical Analysis of American Reading Instruction a cikin shekarar 2002 wanda ya ba da haske game da binciken tarihi da Smith ta yi. Ya ƙunshi sabon babi na ƙarshe kan Umarnin Karatun Amurka tun a shekarar 1967 wanda P. David Pearson ya rubuta.

Ƙungiyar Karatu ta Duniya tana ba da tallafi biyu a cikin sunan Smith. Ɗaya shine lambar yabo don girmama malaman sakandare ko na sakandare waɗanda suka fassara ka'idar da bincike a aikace. Kyauta ta biyu ita ce don tallafawa memba na Ƙungiyar Karatu ta Duniya da ke aiki akan aikin yaɗawa ga al'ummar ilimi.

Tarin Tarihi na Nila Banton Smith a cikin Karatu a Jami'ar Hofstra ya ƙunshi dubban misalan kayan koyarwa a lokuta daban-daban na tarihi.

 Wallafe-wallafen da aka zaɓa 


 N. Smith, Speed Reading Made Easy, Warner Books Printing, 1987.

 Manazarta 

Rukuni:Mutuwan 1976