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Reading Habits

 

Checking out my own experience as a reader, I must confess that I feel like an inconstant one. I mainly read for pleasure when I have the enough time to do it, to really enjoy it, to get the most of it. This means, long holidays or weekends when I do not have much to do (stating this at the same time than saying I´m a teacher and a father of a second grader, it implies I do not have too much time for myself).

When reading in my mother tongue, I basically read novels, comics, articles from blogs or news… Reading in English is a totally different story. Normally I choose articles related to my background knowledge as well as those which match my level of language proficiency. In addition to that, I must be completely 100% focus on the task, otherwise, I lose track. Sometimes in the past, trying to go over a historic novel it became a frustrating activity due to my lack of specific knowledge of vocabulary. As a result, I gave up reading it and now I have decorating my shelves a very beautiful and “useless” book.

 

Having a look at the images of the topic, I can infer different reasons why the people is reading: academics, for pleasure…; different formats: digital, regular books, newspapers; and different places: school, street, a library. All these make me think that there is not just one way to approach reading, we should take into consideration distinct backgrounds, previous knowledge and different motivations.  




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