summary of chapter 11

READING, CHAPTER 1
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For many years, three basic definitions of reading have driven literacy programs in the United states (Foertch 1998). According to first definition, learning to read means learning to pronounce words. According to second definition, learning to read means learning to identify words and get their meaning. According to third definition, learning to read means learning to bring meaning to a text inorder to get meaning from it.
Text book's author describes "Reading" is an active process based on an author's ability to convey meaning through the written word and your ability to extract meaning from those words.
Writing in your learning journal helps you to think on paper about what you have read, to identify what you do (and do not) understand and explore how you think. In order to make learning journal work you need to explain what you have learned and what is still unclear to you.
Concentration is the ability to focus exclusively on a project and to ignore all else. In order to develop a good concentration habits you need to actively engage with what you are reading.Most of us use all of the different learning styles to a greater or lesser extent, but we tend to prefer one of them.They are; Auditory learning is what we learns comes from what we hear in lecture.Visual learning is through television, video etc and kinesthetic learning is through drawing maps, making models etc.
There are two types of concentration distracters they are; Internal and External distracters. Internal distracters comes from inside you and external distracters comes from your environment and can include television, loud music, constant cell phones etc.
I do love reading books which is specially related to my study but i am not much interested to read novels beacuse i don't have much power in my concentration.By reading this chapter i leaned how to develop my concentration power by following different author's techniques to improve concentration.