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    The document discusses two approaches to reading: top-down and bottom-up. Top-down reading involves using prior knowledge and schemas to approach a text, while bottom-up reading focuses exclusively on the words and sentences within the text itself without outside context or knowledge. Bottom-up reading is also referred to as text-based or data-driven reading.

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    The document discusses two approaches to reading: top-down and bottom-up. Top-down reading involves using prior knowledge and schemas to approach a text, while bottom-up reading focuses exclusively on the words and sentences within the text itself without outside context or knowledge. Bottom-up reading is also referred to as text-based or data-driven reading.

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    Top-Down and Bottom-Up Reading

    TOP-DOWN READING --
    approaching a text on the basis of prior content, language, or textual
    schemata that the reader might have with regard to that particular
    text.

    BOTTOM-UP --
    focusing exclusively on what is in the text itself, and especially on
    the words and sentences in the text. Also called text-based or data-
    driven reading.

    from Cohen, Andrew D. 1994. Assessing Language Ability in the Classroom, 2nd edition. Boston:
    Heinle & Heinle Publishers, pp. 213-214.

    http://facultystaff.richmond.edu/~terry/Middlebury/topbottom.htm

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