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Exploring the Meaning of Critical Reading

Zannatul Ferdous and Mahmuda Alam

Abstract

Critical Reading is an important activity of readers which opens the wide world of knowledge to them. This paper addresses the exact meaning of critical reading which is a collaboration between the reader and the writer. Critical reading refers to a higher level of reading that provides the multifaceted meaning of a particular text. A reader who reads critically can find the real taste of a text, which is the main purpose of any kind of reading.

Keywords: critical reading, collaboration between the reader and the writer, multifaced meaning, original intent of the text.

Introduction

Critical reading is a powerful process to analyze and evaluate what we are reading. It is not merely a general activity of reading a text, rather the term ‘Critical Reading’ refers to something more than that. Before going to scholarly definitions of critical reading, at first, we will reveal our personal understanding of it, so that later on our view may be judged by those standards.

For us critical reading is like an x-ray photo of any part of body. Apparent look is not enough to have a close knowledge of a part of body as well as a text. To know any of it more profoundly there should be a special process we need to go through. To know an organ of a body, x-ray machine helps to show the things exist inside the skin, the bones. Critical reading is like that medium which take the readers to those things of a text which are hidden between the lines.

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Zannatul Ferdous
MA in TESOL, North South University
Former Faculty Member, Scholastica English Medium School
lopamm@yahoo.com


Mahmuda Alam
M.Phil. in ELT, University of Dhaka
MA in TESOL, North South University
Full-time Lecturer, World University of Bangladesh
masrooralmir@gmail.com
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