Discuss readings skills that you have learned in this class, but have rarely used in your reading. Do you think they are really necessary ones for better reading? Why or why not?
In our textbook, there are many reading skills we covered in this class. But as for rarely used reading skills, I think to distinguish which skill is frequently used or not is quite difficult. Because when I am reading the passage, I unconsciously use reading skills and usually these reading skills are integrated together. But I can find out some reading skills that I rarely used in reading after looking through my personal type to study English and recalling my teenager time.
First, “recognizing words in context” is not used frequently in my reading. Since Korea’s trend for studying English is not to recognize words in context but to memorize the meaning of words because of the College scholastic ability test, I just try to memorize the meaning of the word when I encounter new words. This method is more effective to prepare the test.
Second, “identifying a writer’s technique” is also rarely used when I am reading the text. As I mentioned before, since I have to prepare the test, this skill is not useful for the test. I just have to learn some skills that are useful to find out the main idea for the passage quickly. So I don’t think I use this skill frequently when I am reading the English text.
Like this situation, “Forming judgments” is rarely used in my reading. I didn’t need to set my opinion after reading the text so I didn’t use this skill when I was a high school student. But after entering the university, I think I use this skill occasionally because university requires students to read actively.
In conclusion, those kinds of skills are apparently helpful to become an excellent reader but in Korea, because of the test and circumstances, students don’t have enough opportunities to use these skills. Therefore, teachers should make students read more actively and also encourage them to become better readers not just good at the test. It will more effective for students in long term.
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