A Discourse Approach in Reading: English Reading Strategies week15

16 NOVEMBER 2015

The Final [ C H A P T E R ]

Extensive Reading

This is the last week that we studied in this course. At my point of view "Time goes by fast" because the study in the first semester will end and I have to take a final examination so I need to prepare myself as well in order to get the better scores of this final examination.

Do you know exactly? What does "EXTENSIVE READING" mean?

As far as I see, Extensive reading is reading as much as possible, for your own pleasure, at a difficulty level at which you can read smoothly and quickly without looking up words or translating to English as you go.

Today, we studied about "EXTENSIVE READING" before we studied, the teacher had told us about the midterm test scores. I got 15 points. I was so pleasure with my score because I hadn't been confident about the midterm test and very difficult. When she had already told us, she taught us about this content. An important point is that the two language researchers conducted an interesting experiment with a group of English language students in Japan. These students didn't like English and failed the test so the researchers put these students in a special class. At the end of the semester, the results were surprising because their scores on the new tests were as high as the regular English students including their English ability had been improved and they had been enjoy of this class.

This is the book cover that one of studying book in Extensive Reading Class in Japan

Next, we responded the questions of this handout. I used the skimming skill by reading the title, subtitle in order to find the answers respectively. In addition, I used the scanning by reading the details in order to find the questions either.

I also knew that "READING ENGLISH" can help us to improve other skills including Speaking, Listening, Writing and Reading skills. It can tend to help us to get the high TOEIC/TOEFL scores. Thereby, if we read a lot, we will tend to have these skills and get the high TOEIC/TOEFL scores as well.

At my best guess, we should read the simple English books or enjoyable books because we can easily understand the text without needing a dictionary. Moreover, we can be enjoy reading English books either.

After that, we had to take a test. Personally, I felt that the test was pretty difficult and I didn't do it fully owing to the limit of time so I need to prepare my best in taking a final examination of this course.

To my way of thinking, I feel happy to study of this course. I get lots of knowledge including the techniques in fast reading from my teacher. I will adapt these on my studying in order to be good at English.

Eventually, I would like to say "THANK YOU" with MY MOM who supports and raises me up since I was born till up to now, ASST.PROF.DR. USA NOYTIM who taught me and all of my friends, MY FRIENDS who help me on my studying and encourage me when I feel worse, EVERYONE who visits my weblog and BLOGGER which likes my diary to write down the things that I have studied on this.