This is John's reading of the first statement:
“so, the limit as X approaches A of the function F evaluated the point X is equivalent to the limit L if and only if for all positive values of epsilon there exist a corresponding positive value delta, such that if the absolute value of the difference between X and A is strictly less than delta, then the absolute value of the difference between the function F evaluated X and its limit L is strictly less than epsilon.” The John's first reading was fluid. He used his background to transform the mathematical symbols into words, phrases, sentences, and finally in statements. For example, the string of letters lim was read as limit. He was able to combine his linguistic and mathematical resources …show more content…
I am going to read it like that”. He transacted with the text, he decided to how to read it, even though he was the writer of the text, when he became the reader, he did not follow his own writing, he followed what he thought would make more sense in terms of reading. His reading of the third statement presented more interesting features. While reading this statement, John made some pauses, and miscued and corrected himself as a proficient reader. The transcription of his reading is as follows:
“let’s see what I can do with this one, so, the definite integral from A to B of the function F evaluated at X is equivalent to the limit as the maximum length of the sub interval X approaches 0 of the summation of the function of the product of function F evaluated at the sample point [3 sec] at each sample point within each respective subinterval multiply by the length of the corresponding subinterval [3 secs] iterated from I equals one to n. That’s the end of that one it’s a bit much choppy, doesn’t flow very well but that one is mostly with that one