Reading Skills

What is Reading?
*A broader view of the nature of reading  is that it involves the recognition of the important elements of meaning in their essential relations, including accuracy and thoroughness in comprehension.
*When reading is seen as a decoding process , syntactic, semantic and pragmatic knowledge are involved in it..
* Nuttal, after considering definitions of reading in terms of reading aloud or decoding, settles for  the extraction of meaning from written messages.
*Widdowson defines reading as the process of getting  linguistic information carried by linguistic messages via print.
* Perfeti suggests  that reading can be considered  as thinking guided by print, with reading ability as skill at comprehension of  Text.
*Reading is the process of receiving and interpreting  information encoded in language from via the medium of print.