Understanding Reading, Text, and Discourse

READING defined as a cognitive process that involves decoding symbols to arrive at ______.

Reading with a purpose helps the reader to direct information towards a goal and focuses their attention on ______.

TEXT - A group of ideas put together to make a point or one central ______.

DISCOURSE - Use of words to exchange thoughts and ideas in an orderly and organized ______.

The term discourse comes from the word ______.

TEXT VS.DISCOURSE: TEXT is made up of sentences having the property of grammatical ______.

___________ is the use of such sentences and utterances having the property of coherence

Cohesion is the connection of sentences to ___________

Coherence is the connection of paragraph to ___________

Reading as a process has three stages: PRE, ___________, and AFTER

Skimming is used to get only the main ideas of a text to know what the material is all about, used to search only for specific ___________ needed

Brainstorming is a group creativity technique by which efforts are made to find a conclusion for a specific problem by gathering a list of ideas spontaneously contributed by its ___________