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Originally Posted by mrscoach
I have been working in schools for years, but am currently going to college to get my teaching degree in English. In the past two years I worked closely with students in an English/Language Arts classroom and have noticed something by casual observation and questioning.
It seems that, often, poor readers do not 'see' what they are reading in their mind. They aren't making that connection in their brain and are too hung up on reading the words of a story. The good readers tend to picture the characters and action going on, just as if they were watching a movie.
I've always had these images in my head when I read, and when younger was often the hero or heroine or a story. Ok, so sometimes I was the bad guy too, if it was an interesting character. I find it internalizes the story more and helps me keep everything straight.
So, do you imagine the scenes from the books you read? I know people who read a lot are most likely "good" readers, because if you aren't you probably aren't going to do a lot of it, but I was wondering about this little cross section of humanity (or non-humans, if any be on here).
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When there is not any time constraint, it's often not matter of "can" or "cannot", rather it is more like "would" or "would not", I believe.
English is my second language and I started learning it past I was 18, so I'm a slow reader and conjuring imagery from words is not easy. I often force myself to do it, however, as that way I seem to remember better later:nothing remarkable, the more memory cues, the more likely we remember the event associated later.
But I never seem to read newspaper articles or manuals in the same fashion: even when I'm reading in my native language; I generally get something like event association table in my head. Nor do I visualize things when I'm listening to someone's story.
In my opinion, "the ability to form imagery" is only one of the many features of "a good(understanding well) and efficient reader(read fast)", but it is only one of the many. "The Imagery forming skill" might be playing an important role in vocabulary learning, mnemonics, and creative writing though.