Percy Jackson And The Olympians: The Lightning Thief

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Reading is a fundamental skill to acquire content knowledge in academic fields such as science and social studies. During the time, people have been expected that children will learn and able to read when they studied at school. Therefore, they do not realize that they learn to read since they were in children-stage. In the early time of learning, children are introduced to letters and they must be familiar with those letters to be able to read. Naturally, they learn to combine the letters into words and read it correctly. During the process, they must success to combine the ability of auditory, visual, memory and concentration. However, some people are faced with the difficulty in reading. They unable to combine the ability of auditory, visual, …show more content…

It tells about how a teenager had been failed to read although Dyslexia is not the main theme in this movie. Because of that, as a part of Psycholinguistics approach, the researcher become interested in exploring Dyslexia phenomena that suffered by Percy Jackson. This research is employed descriptive qualitative research which has focused on phenomena of dyslexia suffered by Percy Jackson. This research is using Psycholinguistics analysis. In analyzing part of the movie, library research is carried out. Data are collected from a part of the movie "Percy Jackson and The Olympians: The Lightning Thief" as the primary source. Then the secondary sources like books, essays, journals and electronics data accessed through the internet, are organized, classified, and analyzed. The result is presented in the conclusion of the research. In study of Linguistics, the term of Psycholinguistics became very important since it appointed as an independent discipline. It has the expert to examine the relationship between language and psychology. Basically, Psycholinguistics is concerned on describing the humans’ brain in order to compute and process thoughts to comprehend and produce language. The study of Psycholinguistics also contends the study of language and brain includes language …show more content…

It mentioned that seeing letters "jump around" is a common experience among (the very large number of) people who have dyslexia. It is important to understand that when a dyslexic person “sees” letters or words reversed or mixed up, there is usually nothing wrong with her eyes. The problem is in the way the mind interprets what the eyes see, like an optical illusion, except this mismatch between what illusion and reality happens with ordinary print on a

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