l3 the psychological process of reading

8/4/2019 L3 the Psychological Process of Reading

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Vocabulary

Slow in thinking

MentalRely firmly or fully

Taking elements from

all sourcesTo let oneself be

absorbed totally

Meeting of various

elements Purely

Foolishly unreasonable

Giving meanings tosensory experience

Sphere, range or area of

thought


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1. Dont rely merely on your own ideas, but

consider your fellow members ideas, too.

2. To immerse yourself into that activity meansto devote most of your time and effort into it.

3. Your ideas are as absurd as Janes ideas that

favor the total elimination of school exams.


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4. If you take an eclectic stand, you must agree

to everybodys suggestions.

5. You observe the object with your senses andthink of them through your perceptual

abilities.

6. Each lobe of the brain has its own domain:the right for artistry and the left for logic.


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7. The media men witnessed the convergence

of the people at UST, Manila.

8. Similar to how a boatman anchors his boat toa steel at the riverbank, you have to base

your understanding of the text on your

experience.


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9. Your cognitive aspect is responsible for your

insights about the world.

10.A brainy person is intelligent; a dull-mindedone is stupid.


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PONDER ON THESE QUESTIONS:

How does one understand a written material?

What happens when one begins to read?


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SCHEMATA stock knowledge, views,

concepts, background knowledge orexperiences


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When one reads a text, these schemata are

brought to the reading process to help one

interpret or attach meanings to the printedwords.

Note: The extent of your schemata is therefore

the key to a better understanding of the text.


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Your act of understanding or making the text

meaningful is called Comprehension or

Meaningful Identification.


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Reading is not merely recognizing orpronouncing individual printed letters or

words on the paper. It is more on attaching meanings or ideas to

the whole text. (activated by schemata)

Schemata (always plural) means storedknowledge

Schemathe symbol or mental representationof this knowledge in your brain


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Schemata are your bases in making sense of

the world.

Comprehension serves as the essence,bottom line, or final outcome of any reading

act (the main objective of reading)

No comprehension = no reading


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- Mc Whorter (2007)


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1. Recognize the printed language symbols.

2. Attach or assign meanings to the symbols

based on your schemata.

3. Fuse or relate your schemata or concepts of

the symbols with the authors ideas.

4. Adjust, modify, or construct new knowledge

about the text based on the merging of your

schemata and the writers ideas.


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But what if you have very limited

schemata or you rely mainly on

the authors ideas?


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Bottom-Up ReadingYou spend time analyzing the structure, form,

stress, or other features of the language to get

clues.Getting meanings depends a lot on data

appearing on the page, not on your

expectations or anticipations about it.


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Bottom-Up Reading does not give importance

to ones own experience.

Reading is limited mainly to the visible symbolsencountered on the page.

This is the reason why some experts believe

this method of reading thrives on low-levelconcepts.


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Top-Down ReadingThe direction of forming meanings proceeds

from the reader to the author.

Readers greatly depend on schemata tounderstand the text.

Focuses on what the readers already know or

what they have already experienced in theworld.


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Interactive or Schema Reading Considered as the most comprehensive direction

of the reading process

Requires readers to deal with both textual andnon-textual information (predictions,

assumptions, conclusions, etc).

The readers understanding of the text does notcome in a linear or sequential pattern.

Rather, all levels of thinking interact or influence

one another.


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Interactive or Schema Reading Strengthens reading abilities by giving

importance also to letters or words in the total

understanding of the text.This reading method allows one to shift from

TD to BU reading or vice-versa for an easier

comprehension of the text.


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Some gestures which signal poor or difficult

understanding of the text:

Fingers moving slowly along the lines

Lips moving while sounding the words

Sub-vocalization or reading silently to oneself


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How do we achieve easy, fast, and

thorough understanding of the text?


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