20170821 The Reading Mind

开始阅读《为什么学生不喜欢上学》同一个作者的新书：The Reading Mind A Cognitive Approach to Understand How the Mind Reads.

同样也是运用认知心理学来结构的书。这一次关注的内容是阅读。

Introduction

• Explain why it is difficult to describe a complex activity in science and why scientist generally will avoid it.

• The planning of the book, it actually would involve a lot of basic cognitive analysis of the basic steps of reading.

• We should be very careful about its appliances in education because education is more an applied science than basic science.

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Chapter One: Start with writing, why we write

To better understand reading, we need to trace the purpose behind a text, that is why we write and how we write:

• write for extension of memory, pragmatic purpose
• write for extension of speech, transmission of thoughts to others

How writing might work:

• Pictograph, easy to understand, without any training, but subject to misinterpretation

• Logograph, much clear with the direct meanings, but still lack of the nuances to explain the time, exact object and other complicated meanings

• Phonetic writing system: that we solve the problem and write what we exactly speak

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And the sound thus connects closely to the writing.

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Summary of Chapter 1

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