Chapter
II
Definition
of reading
Zare (2013: 1667) Reading is a
cognitive activity in It is believed that,
strategic awareness and which the reader takes part in a conversation with the
monitoring of the comprehension process are significantly author through the
text.
Karim
& Haq (2014: 473) Reading is a combination of two
sub-skills micro-skills and macro-skills. Micro-skills
involve processing letters, words, orthographic patterns,
recognizing word classes like nouns, verbs etc. and understanding systems like
tense and syntactic structures. On the
other hand macro-skills
are mainly concerned
with the comprehension
of semantic and pragmatic knowledge.
Based on Perfetti (2001: 280) Reading
is a processes depend on the language of the reader and the writing system that
encodes that language. The units of the writing system are converted into
mental representations that include the units of the language system.
Specifically important are the identification of words and the engagement of language
and general cognitive mechanisms that assemble these words into messages. It is
visual word identification that is the process most distinctive to reading.
Beginning with a visual input a string of letters perceptual processes produce
the activation of the grapheme units (individual and multiple letters) that
constitute words.
In addition Cline, F., Johnstone,
C., & King, T. (2006) defines reading as a decoding and understanding text
for particular reader purposes. Readers decode written text by translating text
to speech, and translating directly to meaning. To understand written text,
readers engage in constructive processes to make text meaningful, which is the
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