Concept in Definition ABC
Miscellanea / / July 04, 2021
By Florencia Ucha, on Jun. 2014
The of the understanding is undoubtedly one of the most important capacities that human beings have because it is through them that we can know and understand those things that surround us and the situations that arise in our lives.
It is rather a skill intellectual that not only implies understanding words or phrases but also consists of correctly grasping the meaning of, for example, a text.
Then, whoever has and develops this capacity in a manner that is consistent, will be able to understand without problems everything that is presented to them.
Meanwhile, it will be our brain that will carry out a series of actions that will predispose us to understand the messages that are addressed to us.
In the process of learning that all the people ever go through, in the school, in the university, or in any other educational space, understanding turns out to be a question essential and very relevant when it comes to successfully capturing all the knowledge that is provide.
The readingFor example, it is an inexhaustible source of knowledge, but it will only be accessible if we adequately understand it..
Formally it is called reading comprehension and it consists of developing meanings from the most relevant concepts that were obtained from a text and their subsequent association with concepts that were already internalized.
Not all people take the trouble to read a text and understand it, many times they learn it from memory without stopping at each appreciation and this will obviously make it difficult to understand. And not to mention the possibility of remembering it in the long term, practically impossible to do so if you learned it by heart without intervention of reading comprehension.
If, at the initial and secondary educational levels, the focus was on the relevance of understanding the texts, the students would not only better understand the topics and subjects but also the knowledge they would persist.
In some cases the apathy that the student sometimes shows can be adduced but there is also a responsibility of those who develop programs that impose really dense and unattractive readings for students.
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