Why literature is important? Literature molds man as a total human being‚ sympathetic‚ aware and sensitive. It educates and entertains. When we read literature‚ we are informed of events that beset our environment and the fictitious characters and colorful events amuse us. Literature leads us to understand the life of man. It is important to us because it speaks to us and it affects us. Even when literature is seemingly ugly‚ it is still beautiful. It enlivens human interest and enriches and colors
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productive individuals (The Philippine Star‚ 2012). Obviously‚ the ultimate purpose of reading is comprehension. Therefore‚ it is absolute that no reading takes place when there is no comprehension. According to Espino (2014) reading comprehension is one of the pillars of the act of reading.
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Teaching Reading National Reading Panel Reading Comprehension Strategies Strategies that can help improve text comprehension. Monitoring Comprehension To understand what you are reading‚ one must learn how to be aware of understanding what you are reading. Teaching metacognition strategies help students learn ways to understand what they are reading before‚ during‚ and after reading required information. Before reading‚ students need to understand the purpose for reading. They also
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Perception and Attention People will perceive the world not in the same way. For example‚ two people may look at a cloud‚ and they both may say they see two different things. One may say they see a rabbit whereas the other person may say they see a dog. Perception aids in a persons information process. Attention aids the impact of information in a person ’s long-term memory (Robinson Riegler & Robinson-Riegler‚ 2008). This paper will define the concept of perception and the perceptual organizational
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Selective attention is very important in our daily lives‚ but we are often unaware of how it really works. Therefore‚ it is worthy to explore its characteristics and functions‚ ways to control it and investigation methods. Selective attention‚ also known as focused attention‚ mainly controls our awareness of particular categories or entities in our environment. When it is involved‚ we focus entirely on one stimulus and ignore others (Elizabeth‚ 2006). For instance‚ when we are working hard on an
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have to say. However‚ not paying attention to these experienced people is actually more detrimental to us than it is to the experienced people. Paying attention to older and knowledgeable people allows for us to learn from their mistakes and helps to prevent future catastrophes. There are many examples in history to prove this. Many consider Obama to be an intelligent person and are willing to listen to him. However‚ even a great leader like Obama paid attention to an older and experienced person:
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SELECTIVE ATTENTION‚ DISTORTION AND RETENTION A motivated person is ready to act. How he motivated person actually acts is influenced by his or her view or perception of the situation. Perception is the process by which an individual selects‚ organizes‚ and interprets information inputs to create a meaningful picture the world. Perception depends not only on the physical stimuli‚ but also on the stimuli’s relation to the surrounding field and on conditions within the individual. The key point
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The first of the four Approaches I will discuss is Attention to Speech. Taglimonte (2006: p.8) suggests that it is “the style from which every other style must be calibrated”. William Labov devised a sociolinguistic interview designed to produce a range of types of speech. His main interest was to obtain and identify data that represented people’s casual speech‚ rather than speech that was altered due to the presence of an observer. Most of the interview was conversational and produced two types
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Attention Seeking All of this speech is based on my opinions. There is a popular term amongst younger people – ‘attention whore’. The Urban dictionary describes this term as an individual who will go to any lengths in order to receive attention; it does not matter whether the attention comes from positive or negative means. Now‚ the term attention whore is a negative term. People bandy the term around for anyone they deem to be engaging in [usually] negative attention seeking behaviour. THIS
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Attention getter Background info Not carrying a cell phone is a negative habit to get into because it affects a person’s safety‚ privacy‚ self-esteem and communication. One effect of not carrying a cell phone is safety‚ driving a car. For instance‚ when someone is driving a car‚ it would be unsafe not to carry a cell phone. Not carrying a cell phone is not safe because an individual might find them self in a problem or even a real emergency might happen. If their car breaks down they will
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