Reading is thought to be a kind of conversation between the reader and the text. The reader puts questions, as it were, to the text and gets answers. In the light of these he puts further questions, and so on.
阅读被认为是读者和文字之间的一种对话。读者向文字提出问题，文字给出答案。紧接着，进一步提出问题，以此类推。
For most of the time this "conversation" goes on below the level of consciousness. At times, however, we become aware of it. This is usually when we are running into difficulties, when mismatch is occurring between expectations and meaning. When successful matching is being experienced, our questioning of the text continues at the unconscious level.
大多数时候，这种“对话”都是在意识层面以下进行的。然而，有时我们会意识到这一点，通常是我们遇到困难，当期望和意义之间出现不匹配时。当我们经历了成功的匹配时，我们对文字的质疑会在无意识的层面上继续。
Different people converse with the text differently. Some stay very close to the words on the page; others take off imaginatively from the words, interpreting, criticizing, analyzing and examining. The former represents a kind of comprehension which is written in the text. The latter represents higher levels of comprehension. The balance between these is important, especially for advanced readers.
不同的人对文字的看法不同。有些人贴近页面上的文字；另一些人则从文字中进行想象、解读、批评、分析和审视。前者代表了一种字面上的理解，后者代表更高的理解水平。两者之间的平衡很重要，尤其是对高级读者来说。
There is another conversation which from our point of view is equally important, and that is to do not with what is read but with how it is read. We call this a "process" conversation as opposed to a "content" conversation. It is concerned not with meaning but with the strategies we employ in reading. If we are an advanced reader our ability to hold a process conversation with a text is usually pretty well developed. Not so our ability to hold a content conversation. It is precisely this kind of conversation that is of importance when we are seeking to develop our reading to meet the new demands being placed upon us by studying at a higher level.
从我们的角度来看，还有另一种对话同样重要，那就是与阅读内容无关，而是与如何阅读有关。我们称之为“过程”对话，而不是“内容”对话。它关注的不是意义，而是我们在阅读中采用的策略。如果我们是一个高级读者，我们与文字进行过程对话的能力通常会得到很好的发展，但我们进行内容对话的能力却并非如此。正是这种对话在我们寻求发展阅读以满足更高水平学习对我们提出的新要求时至关重要。
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