THE ACT OF READINGTHE ACT OF READINGThe wor(l)d readingThe wor(l)d reading

Reading: interaction Reading: interaction space between a space between a sender (text author) sender (text author) and a receiver and a receiver (reader), which both (reader), which both of them builds a of them builds a sense.sense.

Reading is not a Reading is not a one-way one-way process, but a process, but a dialogicaldialogical process.process.

Text: a sense unit, not necessarily a Text: a sense unit, not necessarily a verbal text. It is a lacunate space, verbal text. It is a lacunate space, those gaps has been filled by reader. those gaps has been filled by reader.

Reading as a Reading as a counterwordcounterword space: author and reader are space: author and reader are provisory places. The senses provisory places. The senses are continually built, in a are continually built, in a continuous and dialogical continuous and dialogical process.process.

A reader needs to be ready for a reading experience A reader needs to be ready for a reading experience and to assume a critical and dialogical position. and to assume a critical and dialogical position.

Reading: a Reading: a responsiveresponsive and and responsibleresponsible act. act.

World reading: World reading: precedes the precedes the

word reading. It word reading. It is a student is a student

previous previous knowledge, its knowledge, its

life experiences, life experiences, sociocultural sociocultural

repertoire, built repertoire, built senses about the senses about the

environment environment which it lives. which it lives.

Reading is not a Reading is not a decoding activity. decoding activity. Reading is an Reading is an answer and a answer and a choice – is to choice – is to actact over world.over world.

The act of reading: The act of reading: crucial act to develop a crucial act to develop a critical awareness about critical awareness about the individual role at the individual role at society and its capacity society and its capacity to change the world. to change the world.

When a person When a person opens to the opens to the different, has to different, has to deal with new deal with new ideas, people, ideas, people, experiences, experiences, finally opens its finally opens its perceptual range perceptual range and enriched its and enriched its repertoire, helping repertoire, helping it to change itself.it to change itself.

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““Reading the word Reading the word and learning how and learning how to write the word to write the word so one can later so one can later

read it are read it are preceded by preceded by

learning how to learning how to write the world, write the world,

that is having the that is having the experience of experience of changing the changing the

world and world and touching the touching the

world”.world”.

Paulo Freire (1921-Paulo Freire (1921-1997), 1997),

brazilian educatorbrazilian educator

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