General Reading Task
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A General Reading Task is a linguistic processing task that can process a written artifact.
- Context:
- Input: a Written Artifact (such as a handwritten Vietnamese Braille note).
- It can (typically) be instantiated in a Reading Act (by a reader).
- It can range from being a Superficial Reading Task to being a Reading Comprehension Task.
- It can range from being a Manual Reading Task to being an Automated Reading Task.
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- Example(s)
- A Passive Reading Task, such as of reading Pulp Fiction.
- A Strategic Reading Task, such as of performing a Literature Review.
- A Shallow Text Understanding Task.
- A Braille Reading Task.
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- Counter-Example(s):
- See: Sensor Reading, Orthography, Alphabetic Principle, Phonics, Phonemic Awareness, Pictograms, Hazard Symbol, Emoji, Writing System.
References
2021
- (Wikipedia, 2021) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reading Retrieved:2021-2-10.
- Reading is the process of taking in the sense or meaning of letters, symbols, etc., especially by sight or touch. For educators and researchers, reading is a multifaceted process involving such areas as word recognition, orthography (spelling), alphabetics, phonics, phonemic awareness, vocabulary, comprehension, fluency, and motivation. Other types of reading and writing, such as pictograms (e.g., a hazard symbol and an emoji), are not based on speech based writing systems. The common link is the interpretation of symbols to extract the meaning from the visual notations or tactile signals (as in the case of Braille).
2009
- (WordNet, 2009) ⇒ http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=reading
- S: (n) reading (a particular interpretation or performance) "on that reading it was an insult"; "he was famous for his reading of Mozart"
- S: (n) reading, meter reading, indication (a datum about some physical state that is presented to a user by a meter or similar instrument) "he could not believe the meter reading"; "the barometer gave clear indications of an approaching storm"
- S: (n) reading, reading material (written material intended to be read) "the teacher assigned new readings"; "he bought some reading material at the airport"
- S: (n) interpretation, reading, version (a mental representation of the meaning or significance of something)
- S: (n) Reading (a city on the River Thames in Berkshire in southern England)
- S: (n) recitation, recital, reading (a public instance of reciting or repeating (from memory) something prepared in advance) "the program included songs and recitations of well-loved poems"
- S: (n) reading, meter reading (the act of measuring with meters or similar instruments) "he has a job meter reading for the gas company"
- S: (v) read (interpret something that is written or printed) "read the advertisement"; "Have you read Salman Rushdie?"
- S: (v) read, say (have or contain a certain wording or form) "The passage reads as follows"; "What does the law say?"
- S: (v) read (look at, interpret, and say out loud something that is written or printed) "The King will read the proclamation at noon"
- S: (v) read, scan (obtain data from magnetic tapes) "This dictionary can be read by the computer"
- S: (v) read (interpret the significance of, as of palms, tea leaves, intestines, the sky; also of human behavior) "She read the sky and predicted rain"; "I can't read his strange behavior"; "The fortune teller read his fate in the crystal ball"
- S: (v) take, read (interpret something in a certain way; convey a particular meaning or impression) "I read this address as a satire"; "How should I take this message?"; "You can't take credit for this!"
- S: (v) learn, study, read, take (be a student of a certain subject) "She is reading for the bar exam"
- S: (v) read, register, show, record (indicate a certain reading; of gauges and instruments) "The thermometer showed thirteen degrees below zero"; "The gauge read `empty'"
- S: (v) read (audition for a stage role by reading parts of a role) "He is auditioning for `Julius Caesar' at Stratford this year"
- S: (v) read (to hear and understand) "I read you loud and clear!"
- S: (v) understand, read, interpret, translate (make sense of a language) "She understands French"; "Can you read Greek?"
2009
- (Wikipedia, 2009) ⇒ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reading_(process)
- Reading is a complex cognitive process of decoding symbols for the intention of deriving meaning (reading comprehension) and/or constructing meaning. Written information is received by the retina, processed by the primary visual cortex, and interpreted in Wernicke's area.
- Reading is a means of language acquisition, of communication, and of sharing information and ideas.
- Readers use a variety of reading strategies to assist with decoding (to translate symbols into sounds or visual representations of speech, 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 (schemata theory).
- Other types of reading are not speech based writing systems, such as music notation or pictograms. The common link is the interpretation of symbols to extract the meaning from the visual notations.
- Reading text is now an important way for the general population in many societies to access information and make meaning.