Journal 3

Journal Ⅲ (4/28 or 5/19) Highlight anything that you have learned through this course and discuss why this is meaningful for your learning and instruction?

Before taking this course, actually, I didn’t expect to learn something new form this class since reading is the most familiar section with me. I just think teaching second language reading is typical process in the classroom and very simple. But, even if this course is not finished, through this course, I can totally change my thought of teaching second language reading.

Teaching second language reading includes various methods, skills and perspectives than I expected. First, through this course, I can recognize which skills that I use while I read a passage. It means I can recognize my reading skills and I can utilize those skills when I read other passages. Before recognizing my reading skills, I just tend to read a passage typically and not paying attention to reading skills that I used. However, I come to know such as think-aloud approach through this course. I was really meaningful to me. I can know my reading skills while reading and even I can be critical to my reading type. Before, I knew I used reading skills such as skimming and scanning but actually I use a lot of reading skills such as word attack skills, visualizing etc. Recognizing reading skills is really helpful for me to be a better reader. I will make my future students recognize their reading skills when they read.

Second, through this course, I can fully understand reading process. Actually, I didn’t think that to know reading process is not useful to be a good reader because I just thought fast reading is the most important part in reading. So, I thought it is not useful. However, after knowing the reading process precisely, I can read much faster than I didn’t know the reading process. Because, after knowing reading process, I can fully understand that and I can utilize a lot of strategies, methods while reading. And those strategies and methods are accurately helpful to be a fast reader. So I think this process is essential part in teaching second language reading.