Reading is an intricate cognitive process of decoding symbols in order to make meaning (reading comprehension). It is a means of language achievement, of communication, and of sharing information and ideas. Like all language, it is a complex interaction between the text and the reader which is shaped by the reader’s prior knowledge, experiences, attitude, and language community which is culturally and socially situated. The reading process requires constant practice, development, and refinement.
Readers use diverse reading strategies to assist with
decoding and comprehension. Readers may use morpheme, semantics, syntax and
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 pictogram. The common link is the interpretation of
symbols to extract the meaning from the visual notations.
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