Reading. Reading is the complex cognitive process of decoding symbols to derive meaning.
It is a form of language processing. Success in this process is measured as reading comprehension.
Reading is a means for language acquisition, communication, and sharing information and ideas. The symbols are typically visual but may be tactile.
Like all languages, it is a complex interaction between text and reader, shaped by prior knowledge, experiences, attitude, and the language community, which is culturally and socially situated. Readers use a variety of reading strategies to decode and comprehend.
Readers may use context clues to identify the meaning of unknown words. Readers integrate the words they have read into their existing framework of knowledge or schema. Other types of reading are not speech based writing systems, such as music notation or pictograms. The common link is the interpretation of symbols to extract the meaning from the visual notations or tactile signals. Currently most reading is either of the printed word from ink or toner on paper, such as in a book, magazine, newspaper, leaflet, or notebook, or of electronic displays, such as computer displays, television, mobile phones or e-readers. Handwritten text may also be produced using a graphite pencil or a pen.Short texts may be written or painted on an object. Often the text relates to the object, such as an address on an
It is a form of language processing. Success in this process is measured as reading comprehension.
Reading is a means for language acquisition, communication, and sharing information and ideas. The symbols are typically visual but may be tactile.
Like all languages, it is a complex interaction between text and reader, shaped by prior knowledge, experiences, attitude, and the language community, which is culturally and socially situated. Readers use a variety of reading strategies to decode and comprehend.
Readers may use context clues to identify the meaning of unknown words. Readers integrate the words they have read into their existing framework of knowledge or schema. Other types of reading are not speech based writing systems, such as music notation or pictograms. The common link is the interpretation of symbols to extract the meaning from the visual notations or tactile signals. Currently most reading is either of the printed word from ink or toner on paper, such as in a book, magazine, newspaper, leaflet, or notebook, or of electronic displays, such as computer displays, television, mobile phones or e-readers. Handwritten text may also be produced using a graphite pencil or a pen.Short texts may be written or painted on an object. Often the text relates to the object, such as an address on an
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