Journal 2 (Teaching Second Language Reading)
✵ Discuss readings skill 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?
I think there are several reading skills that I have hardly used. I rarely use following skills: interpreting figurative language, judgements of adequacy and validity.
The first reading skill is interpreting figurative language. I usually read textbooks in my course and EBS books related with College entrance exam for tutoring. Therefore, I usually use skills such as summarizing, inferring main idea, inferring sequence, synthesizing, etc. In contrast, interpreting figurative language skill is often used in literature. This skill is used for understanding figurative expressions like metaphorical words and phrases to find their implicative meanings in novel and poem.
Second reading skill that I rarely use is judgements of adequacy and validity. For this skill, I have to think about whether the information of reading material is true or not. And I have to doubt if the reading contents are believable or not. But, in my reading, I usually try to read fast, and to find specific information from the text. So, I don't think about the adequacy and validity. Instead, I just take it for granted that the contents must be true and they must have been written by eminent scholar or many researchers and thus that the contents are proved to be true. So I usually skip to use this reading skill.
I think that these skills are necessary for better reading although I have rarely used. When reading novels and poems, we sometimes stuck in some expressions or phrases even though we can interpret the language literally. In this case, we need 'interpreting figurative language' skill. Using this skill can give readers joys of reading further and time to think deeply about the contents. Readers might be able to improve their inferring skills in the process of finding the hidden meanings. And it can make readers more imaginative.
Readers also can be stuck in some contents and author's arguments that they can be confused. In this case, readers have to critically read the texts again find some evidences to prove those arguments. If there are some false and incorrect information or insufficient evidence, readers can correct them and judge whether they will accept the information or not and whether they will agree to the arguments or not. Then, they can be more autonomous readers who are not swayed by the press such as newspaper, the Internet articles and many baseless information like Jisik-in service.
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