Abstract
Pak. J. Agri. Sei., Vol. 28, No. 1, 1991
REDUNDANCY AND SELECTION IN THE READING PROGRAMME
Abdul Haq Malik
Department of Social Sciences and Humanities,
University of Agriculture, Faisalabad
Reading skill just to make practice for understanding a
particular type of formula.
The role of reading skill is evident
and provides a means by which the mind is Selection
provoked to think about, analyse, store and
retrieve information. In the reading The reading, however perfect,
programme, redundancy and selection are requires selection, The reader cannot
{wo important aspects. digest all the material which he has read in
a book, magazine, or an article in a
Redundancy newspaper, Because whatever we read, we
forget just after a few minutes. In the
Redundancy means the multiple reading process, we have to omit
communication of information. Nothing something out of a junk of information.
remains in the memory of a person unless This omission is compulsory. The
it is repeated and digested. To understand remanant material is called selection.
a problem, repetition is necessary in a
successive Way. Selection and redundancy are
interdependent. Reading a novel indicates
While teaching the scientific that it is full of superficial explanation. A
methods, the teacher uses the words and few of the characters are unnecessary and
phrases. The terms inductive method and may be avoided. The plot of the novel is
deductive method do not convey a full view futl of such incidents without which the
of the meanings to the Icarner. The term is novel could move on. So the reader makes
defined and simplified and presented to a gist or summary of the novel and digests
the learner repeatedly; that inductive it in the core of his mind where it moves
refers from general to particular and from visual information to immediate
stmilarly deductive refers from particular memory and then is preserved in the
to general. While teaching such lessons memory.
some examples are given in the books.
Even these examples are repeated in The redundancy may be activated
different ways so that, if the students do through figures, illustrations, tables, audio-
not follow one written example, they may visual aids, examples and concrete things.
understand the other example. Likewise, But selection 1s also a critical aspect which
just to teach mathematical sums, the is as useful and vital as redundancy is. |
author gives many types of questions
alongwith the examples. The exercise of Selection not only gives a much
factorization, multiplication, addition, shorter material of the whole junk but
subtraction - all carry repetitional matter - sometimes u may also give only one
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