Reading can be defined in two main ways: as the decoding process of syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic knowledge gained from a text, or as the whole set of cognitive activities a reader engages in when interacting with a text. While educational psychologists in the early 1960s discussed various definitions of reading, defining it precisely was still difficult.

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2. Reading
• In the early 1960s, educational
psychologists discussed various
meanings for reading, but it still
was not easy to define it.

3. Reading
• However, they summarized two
main possible wide
meanings, that is,

4. Reading
• reading is the decoding process
of syntactic, semantic, and
pragmatic knowledge, and

5. Reading
• reading is “the whole parcel of
cognitive activities” carried out
by a reader in contacting with a
text

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