PVCC For much of this century, a behavioristic approach to reading, grounded in a mechanistic world view, has dominated reading pedagogy.
Reality consists of discrete elements or building blocks.
The Research Much of this research has centered around the task of identifying the processes of good readers. Also embedded in this perception of reading is the reader's use of strategies in the course of constructing meaning. They know how to use various strategies when their comprehension breaks down. A third concept implied in this view of reading is that reading as a contextualized act. The reader uses reading in a transactional sense to reach a goal.