Learning Reflection

Learning Reflection

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In this course “English Reading Strategies (1551108)” I studied with Dr.Usa Noytim. I’ve learned many topic. There are A healthy diet, Natural disaster/News stories/Today’s technology/Fashion/West meets east/locating information/Extensive reading/paragraph reading strategies.  

Throughout the study in this course is learning about the strategies that useful to read in English such as

Skimming: the process of reading only main ideas within a passage to get an overall impression of the content of a reading selection.

Scanning: reading technique to be used when you want to find specific information quickly. In scanning you have a question in your mind and you read a passage only to find the answer, ignoring unrelated information.

Guessing meaning from context: this means work out what it means (or have a good guess at least) from the words that are around it and from the topic of the paragraph.

Previewing: preview a text before starting to read, in order to orient yourself toward what is important for you in this reading.

 In fact, there are many strategies can help you easy to understand what we read and to read every words or read all of the text. It wastes the time so much.

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Sometime it is hard to understand in some point because it’s too difficult for me such as difficult words. It really makes me confused so I ask friends or look for the definition of each word from dictionary. The one of my problem is when I have to summarize the text. It’s too difficult for me. I read and understand the text but I can’t summarize it in my own word but I tried to do it so hard. I enjoy working in group because we can work together and also practice speaking skill with friends.

sourec: https://quotefancy.com/quote/934170/William-Feather-If-at-first-you-don-t-succeed-try-hard-work

These strategies it’s very useful for me. I can use it when I read in English even read in Thai. It can help me easier to understand but no need to read all the text.

Throughout the study in this course I’ve learned a lot. Not only the strategies that I’ve learned but also the best experiences that the teacher is always share with us. She is my inspiration to study in English and study abroad like her.

source: http://www.hercampus.com/school/brandeis/pros-and-cons-studying-abroad

I want to say thank you  a million times for everything that you taught us. You always told us what is properly or not to behave because we’re going to be an English teacher in the future. You are my role model to be a good teacher.

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In my opinion this course is very valuable because I can use it in my daily life when I read news. Text books, advertises etc. This subject not only improved my reading skill but also writing skill ass well because we have to write on Blogger every week.

source: http://gordon-square.com/what-all-good-clients-have-in-common/

I have nothing to say to you besides thank you for everything and see you next semester.

Classic Ann Landers

On Monday 14^th November 2016, the last class of this semester .I arrived at classroom around 08.20 am and the teacher came to class at 08.30 am. She is always punctual. Then she checked the name list to know that who absent on that day and gave our works “Healthy Diet” back to us. After that, she gave us new sheet “Classic Ann Landers”

source: http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/Landers.html

Landers, Ann (4 July 1918-22 June 2002), syndicated columnist, was the pen name of Esther Pauline Lederer, who was born in Sioux City, Iowa, to Abraham B. Friedman, a peddler, and Rebecca Rushall. Her parents, Jews who had fled persecution in Russia, had immigrated to the United States ten years earlier. Beginning as a chicken peddler, Abraham Friedman, an astute businessman, saw an opportunity to make money in the up-and-coming movie industry and became an exhibitor and distributor. He eventually owned a chain of theaters in three midwestern states and became one of the first movie-house operators to sell popcorn. In later life Eppie, as Esther was affectionately nicknamed, often said that her stable midwestern upbringing provided her with the basis for a happy life.

source: http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2022164_2021894_2021874,00.html

The teacher let us known about Biography of Ann Landers after that, she let us read and did the exercise –match the each letter with correctly responds. I read and try to do it by myself and checked the answer with my friends after I’ve finished. After finishing, teacher gave us corrective feedback and explained us each text mean. We read and analyzed each letter together. After finishing that exercise, she told us to do another exercise. We have to answer each question about What’s her advice?  What’s the problem?  Why did they write the letter to Ann? After that, she gave us corrective feedback after we’ve finished by ourselves

source: http://icebreakerideas.com/icebreaker-questions-biggest-list-ever/

Next exercise is read the letter that it was sent to Ann and tried to write the respond and gave them the advice. She told us to work in group of three people. My group are Natthaphon, Kittikarn and me. We worked together and sent Natthaphon as a representative of our group to shared our opinion to friends.

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After we have finishing study, we have to take a quiz about unit 5 – 7 and then let’s go to have lunch.

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Today the exercises was easy but the quiz made me very nervous because it too difficult. In fact I known the definition of each words but I can’t place it correctly in vocabulary part. I’ve finished on time but I’m not sure about my answer. I think I have to improve myself if I don’t want to fail the exam so I have to learn a lot about vocabulary and understand how to place each word correctly.  I have to read more in English.

The strategies that I’ve use today are guessing words meaning from the context and skimming  

I feel very serious with the exam but in the class today is fun because the exercise not to difficult and I’ve work with my friends we can talked and analyzed together.

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That's all for today. Good bye.

paragraph reading strategies "Books and Novels"

On Monday 7^th November 2016

I went to class around 8.20 am. And Teacher came to class at 8.30 am. She is always punctual. First of all, check that who present or absent today and then she gave us new sheet, let us did exercises and show us the books that it appeared on our sheet.

source: http://www.pri.org/stories/2015-12-08/five-great-books-you-should-think-about-reading-2016

After that, She let us answered the questions. We have to read all information as fast as we can to answer the questions.

source: http://www.alloutdigital.com/2011/09/read-fast-with-new-service/

That I’ve ever told. Teacher always uses http://dictionary.cambridge.org/

taught us to pronounce each word correctly.

After finishing, she asked us to write summary of each paragraph and wrote it on the board after we came back from break. We had 15 minutes to break at 10.30 am.

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We worked in group and wrote the summary on the board and we read and did a lot of exercises.

Nothing easy everything is difficult because there are a lot of difficult words and we had to read a lot and get main idea. I think it too difficult for me but I solve the problem by asked the teacher and talked with friends. It made me understood more than I read alone.

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The strategies that I’ve used today is skimming and scanning.

Today I feel sleepy and hungry. This class is too long four hours.

 That’s all for today.  

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