Concept in Definition ABC

The reading It is an absolutely human activity, which allows us, thanks to its realization and implementation, for example and among other things, interpret a poetry, a story, a novel, that in terms of the strictly literary, but also to reading we will owe the possibility of interpret signs, body movements, give or receive teaching.

Obviously and on account of the latter that I was telling you about teaching, reading, is closely linked to the process of learning and of course, it will be elementary to bring it to fruition. According to what the linguistics and the psychology Cognitive, two of the disciplines that are responsible for the study of how human beings perceive and understand writing, man perceives the environment by vision with fixations and saccades. When he fixes his gaze, he nails it on a motionless object or point and the saccades will allow him to redirect his gaze from one fixation point to another. So, the human eye does the same thing when it reads some text, recipe, diary or book.

Under normal conditions, a person can read up to 250 words per minute, meanwhile, when it comes across a text ambiguous or with some part that is not fully understood, human beings make use of regressions, which are taken in the opposite direction from left to right that is generally used for reading.

As reading is so important and decisive in the learning process, how to improve reading techniques has been deeply studied. the same, which will aim to comply with two issues inherent to the effective implementation of the same, which will be, achieve the maximum velocity but without resigning the understanding of what is being read.

This is why sequential, intensive and punctual reading is proposed.. Sequential is the most common way to read a text, the speed will be the one used by the reader and there will be no omissions or repetitions. In the intensive, the emphasis will be placed on understanding the full text and the author's intentions, that is, what he says and how he says it will be analyzed.

And the punctual is the one through which the reader will only read what interests him, for example, a note from investigation extensive that appears published in the Sunday newspaper, you will only read the column that the columnist with whom he agrees on regular assessments and will skip the rest of the text that accompanies.