Decoding and the Jabberwocky's Song. Topics in Early Reading Coherence [microform] / Sebastian Wren
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- Wren, Sebastian
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- [Washington, D.C.] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 2001
- 5 p.
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In Lewis Carroll's book, "Through the Looking Glass," Alice reads a poem about the Jabberwocky's Song which makes little or no sense, even though she "decodes" the individual words. The fact that readers can "read" the Jabberwocky's Song, and only loosely derive a notion of what it is about, brings up an important question--what is reading? The problem is that the term "reading" is ambiguous. In the vernacular, "reading" is used indiscriminately--people can "read" numbers, they can "read" a map, they can "read" a book. This ambiguity of terms is one of the reasons why such technical terms are used to describe different reading-related behaviors. Computers are said to "read" a program. Right now, as you read this text, you are using similar algorithms that a computer uses to decode a text to figure out how to pronounce the irregular words. However, you bring in another processor--a speech comprehension processor--to make sense of the text you decode. When a reader looks at the Jabberwocky's Song, as Alice does in Carroll's bok, unless the text conjures up images of frenetic, burrowing badgers and mirthless parrots, that reader's mind is functioning no differently than a computer that is decoding text and taking in large amounts of incomprehensible ideas all at once. (NKA)
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