What is Reading?
Reading for me is more than a process in which the human being is able to understand the meaning of the phrases by decoding. Reading is an interaction with the text, in which the text provides you certain information, and you with your experiences and previous knowledge try to build meanings about the world and the subject that the text is mentioning. Reading implies previous knowledge, comprehension, interaction, recognition, awareness and inference.
Reading opens your mind and makes you creative, it makes you enter in different worlds through your mind and provides you different perspectives of life and reality in order to confront the world with your thoughts and the thoughts of others. Reading opens your sides beyond things you believe normal. It takes you to investigate, to question, to infer, to think about the origin of things, the purpose of the person who writes and what message he wants to leave you.
Reading is like roaming around unknown worlds looking for something that you don't know but you want to know. That's reading for me!!!
I consider your definition very interesting. I like the most the explanation you gave regarding to the interaction process unchained betweeen the reader and the book..
ReplyDeleteI think it is a really complet definition of what reading is, because you mix knowledg, experiences, comprehension, interaction and other, and I consider those elements can help us to create a point of view of life.
ReplyDeletewow!! I find this definition really complete and objective, you didn't leave anything unfinished and you get into it briefly
ReplyDeleteI consider your comment very complete and relevant. I agree with you in some aspects and some not agree. I think we can't have previous knowledge to know something. For instance, I read a tourist book about an interest city that I don't know. I din't know about the city before read the book, but after, I know something about it, later, I visit it and live different experiences.
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