Reading Techniques: Decoding Symbols for Better Comprehension
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What is the main goal of skimming?

  • To locate specific pieces of information
  • To read each word carefully
  • To understand the meaning of each word
  • To grasp the main idea (correct)
  • Which reading technique involves rejecting or ignoring irrelevant information to locate a specific piece of information?

  • Intensive reading
  • Extensive reading
  • Scanning (correct)
  • Skimming
  • What does intensive reading focus on?

  • Locating specific pieces of information
  • Fluency
  • Main idea
  • Accuracy of comprehension (correct)
  • Which reading technique lays more emphasis on fluency and less on accuracy?

    <p>Deriving</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is language acquisition in the context of reading techniques?

    <p>The process by which humans acquire the capacity to perceive and comprehend language</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the cognitive process as mentioned in the text?

    <p>The process of thinking and remembering</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the term used to describe groupings of words that go together to mean something?

    <p>Reading Groupings</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which critical approach focuses on the interaction of the reader with the text and examines the reader's reactions and thoughts to a piece of work?

    <p>Reader-Response Criticism</p> Signup and view all the answers

    According to New Criticism, what is everything needed to analyze a work contained within?

    <p>The text itself</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which critical approach relates the author’s life and thoughts to their work?

    <p>Biographical Criticism</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What does Psychoanalytic criticism argue about literary texts?

    <p>They express the secret unconscious desires and anxieties of the author</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What does Historical Criticism primarily reflect a concern with?

    <p>The social structure of the time</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What does Gender/Feminist Criticism primarily address?

    <p>Issues of masculinity and femininity as binaries</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is Non-prose Reading concerned with?

    <p>Graphic forms or non-prose forms such as maps, tables, charts, and graphs</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is usually involved in reading for pleasure?

    <p>Out-of-classroom activity</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What does Critical Approaches to Reading Literature involve?

    <p>Analyzing language and literary conventions such as plot, rhyme, meter, dialect, setting, point of view, etc.</p> Signup and view all the answers

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