What is reading?
To read is not only to put letters or words together doing a good pronunciation, intonation, etc. Of course these skills are important because if you don’t know the codes of the languages you couldn’t read; but a real process of reading is more complex, is to analyze what the text says and how it is written by the author. For me reading is a conscious interactive relation between the reader and the text. This conscious interactive relation means to understand all the information that is specific and implicit in the text. This process gives the possibility to thought on what we read, reveals how our mind makes sense, how connects the ideas that emerge while we are reading and how we understand the world or our environment.
Diana López
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ReplyDeleteI remember when you were reading a book by Hans Jonas about the responsibility in the technological age, and I could relate it with the last sentence of your definition. However, we could say something more, we could say reading generates, ideally, a sense of responsibility to the world or to the environment, as you say. In this case, the reader needs certain characteristics...
ReplyDeleteBut... do we really can "understand" what the author wanted to express? ... mmmm
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