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= Meaning =


Adolescent readers develop interpretation skills according to their prior knowledge of the topic We try to understand something new in terms of how it resambles to something old (Gee 2008). As students read they develop language vocabulary because they encounter the vocabulary in a context form. Reading is a complex process, that requires more than the skills of decoding words, in Reading, the process requires an interpreter to understand an idea, a reader who interprets the text in his/her own words. James Gee in his book "Social Linguistic and Literacies" exposes the relation between the development of meaning and its relation to sociocultural context. According to Gee, the meaning of a word, is determined by the social negotiantion and cultural interpretation in which the word is used. Educators need to be aware that diverse students can have different meaning versions of a particular concept or reading interpretation.

References: Gee J. //Social Linguistics and Literacy.// Routledge and Taylor and Francis Group Publication