Extensive Reading

Extensive Reading

This course is a good course for impoving English skills.

The benefits of this course makes me to know about 

how to find the main idea in each paragraphs, how to speak the words correctly, how to summarize the text the teacher giving, how to use skimming and scanning in the text, using Cambridge dictionary on website, writing English sentences correctly etc.

 I review a book or article to determine the research behind it. Knowing this information helps me to determine how the reader is making his/her conclusions and what might be absent from the discussion. So, I check the end of each chapter, the footnotes and end notes. The research notes also lead you to other writers should you want to investigate ideas further.

You might ask why I would use these two additional reading strategies. Earlier in my career I was more easily swayed by the popular business press. Later, I started looking behind what was being written to determine if what was being said was merely opinion or well substantiated with solid research. Having this distinction helped me to distinguish fad from fact. 

I think all article in this course are important and different to study but it makes me understand more than I have been.Thank you Asst. Prof. Dr.Usa Noytim for teaching about English Reading Strategies and providing lots of new experiences.

West meets East continue

West meets East continue

          Today I had the reading English strategies class in the morning. The teacher taught me about " West meets East." to continue last week.when the class started, she gave us discussing the questions with my partner that the text mentions many celebrities, foods, and products from Asia. Which are we familiar with? Do you like them? and what products, celebrities, and foods from other Asian countries do we like? around 10 munites for discussing. and then she gave us to do the exercise about the vocabulary focus1 : Complete the text with the words in the box and taught the grammartical how to use like and such as.After that she told us to read the text about ''Expat in Asia''

I think this is quite difficult but we have to get to know new words that we have never seen and we know the Asian culture.