Perspectives On the Reading Process

Perspectives On the Reading Process

1. Contemporary Interactive Perspectives

   • Identification
     • Lower level skills
       • Rapidly and automatically recognize words
   • Interpretation
     • High level skills
       • Able to comprehend and interpret

2. Schema Theory

   • Poetry Schemata
     • Information about how poem look and mean
   • Intimacy schemata
     • Determine relationship between interlocutors in the poem
   • Bottom-Up
     • Linguistic input from text is map against previous knowledge
     • Known as data driven as it evoked by the incoming data
     • Requires language processing such as word, sentence and discourse
   • Top-down, knowledge based
     • Use prior knowledge to make predictions that they will find in text
   • Background knowledge
     • Formal schemata
       • Involving knowledge of rhetorical structure and conventions
     • Content schemata
       • Involving knowledge of the world beyond texts

3. Role of the Reading Teacher

   • Create environment of independent, problem-solving readers who chose what to read and who practiced strategies for efficient reading
   • Facilitative
   • Make students dispensible

4. Activities in the reading class

   • Skimmed the poem to obtain general sense of its content
     • Detailed reading for thorough comprehension
   • Scanning- look for specific words or phrases
   • Critical reading- Allow student create a meaningful discourse
     • returned to the text using different strategies to achieve comprehension
   • Student invited to go beyond the format to find the intimacy of poem