It has come to my attention recently that there are many out there who do not know how to read a blog or in general, an article and understand it properly.
This is really a worrying situation when all of us who have gone through some education at some point of our lives are taught again and again about ‘reading’.
Whether it is primary school or secondary school, or even at the tertiary level, we will get papers with the first section having titles like “Comprehension”, “Pemahaman” or “理解文” (Trust me, if I knew the Tamil equivalent of this vocabulary, I would include it).
The questions which follow the passage will require you to understand not all but at least the majority of the contents of the given passage in order to provide the appropriate answers.
Throughout our education lives, we have been repeatedly taught to read and try to comprehend these passages so that we can understand what it is trying to convey.
The question which arises now: Why do we still misinterpret an article so often?
The problem which I have noticed here is that people love to just read a post, and then pick out a particular sentence and excessively emphasize on it. If the article has 500 words in it, do you just read and emphasize the 10 words in a particular sentence and take it as the complete meaning of the entire article?
Will this action bring misunderstanding?
Will this action bring misinterpretation?
Will this action bring harm to the author?
Will this action bring unnecessary complications to the author(s) and reader(s) when speculations are bring spread widely without first seeking clarification from the author(s)?
It is saddening that many people out there are so called ‘educated’ yet their actions present them otherwise.
I hope for those people have read this article, you can re-learn the meaning of ‘comprehension’.
This is really a worrying situation when all of us who have gone through some education at some point of our lives are taught again and again about ‘reading’.
Whether it is primary school or secondary school, or even at the tertiary level, we will get papers with the first section having titles like “Comprehension”, “Pemahaman” or “理解文” (Trust me, if I knew the Tamil equivalent of this vocabulary, I would include it).
The questions which follow the passage will require you to understand not all but at least the majority of the contents of the given passage in order to provide the appropriate answers.
Throughout our education lives, we have been repeatedly taught to read and try to comprehend these passages so that we can understand what it is trying to convey.
The question which arises now: Why do we still misinterpret an article so often?
The problem which I have noticed here is that people love to just read a post, and then pick out a particular sentence and excessively emphasize on it. If the article has 500 words in it, do you just read and emphasize the 10 words in a particular sentence and take it as the complete meaning of the entire article?
Will this action bring misunderstanding?
Will this action bring misinterpretation?
Will this action bring harm to the author?
Will this action bring unnecessary complications to the author(s) and reader(s) when speculations are bring spread widely without first seeking clarification from the author(s)?
It is saddening that many people out there are so called ‘educated’ yet their actions present them otherwise.
A passage is presented as a ‘whole’ to carry the complete meaning, and not as a ‘basket full of yellow balls with only a red one among them for you to pick out’.
I hope for those people have read this article, you can re-learn the meaning of ‘comprehension’.
2 comments:
I think that problem happen because ppl just want to give comment for the sake of giving comment.
They speed up reading. Skipping lines. And sum up in whole.
That is why when I write long composition in my blog. I use different font size and colour to attrack readers and highlights the important things i want to say.
Supia Chao
yea, I somewhat agree with you.
the problem is, if the misunderstanding remains in the virtual world (online world) then it's ok.
But what if the misunderstanding is brought to the real world among your real life friends?! that would be a nightmare, would it?!
Cheers.. thanks for dropping by..
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