What is Reading?

 

What is Reading? In Longman Advanced American Dictionary, it is defined that reading is the activity of looking at and understanding written words.[1] 

What is Reading? By different perspective, Joseph Bennette stated that reading is a visual process-vision is a symbolic process of seeing an item or symbol and translating it into an idea or image. Images are processed into concepts and whole dimensions of thought. The visual process of taking in information visually and translating that into dimensions of thought is very rapid. It moves at the speed of thought and this process exceeds the speed of light. Whole-brain, intuitive, symbolic reading is meant to be a conceptual metaphor for life. It is blueprinted into human right-left brained and holistic mind. It is simply connecting one person’s intuition to another’s. The author is imagining something (even when the author is writing about facts), the reader can interpret those writings and glean the author’s imaginings.[2]



[1] Della Summers and Team, Longman Advanced American Dictionary, (SecondEdition, USA, Pearson Education Limited, 2007), p. 1312

[2] Joseph Bennette, ACourse in Light Speed Reading,(Fifth Edition, USA, 2001), p. 23