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? .
Skills rarely implemented to constitute meaning are just as important as other skills that are frequently used. As the rarely used skills are standing by, they are generating infinite potentials within. In this short essay, I will prove how this statement can be true through three major supporting points.
Before that, first I have to set a background for this discussion. In my case, I think I generally use recognition, reorganization and inferential comprehension skills according to the table 4.3. When I skim through a text, I tend to first firmly recognize the details and important ideas, then fill in comprehension gaps by inferring skills. After I glanced one time, I try to reconstruct what I have read. In other words, I first build firm buildings by recognizing, and then build bridges among them by inferring, and at last I reorganize the buildings and bridges in my mind. As a natural consequence, the skills related to evaluation or appreciation are rarely implemented. This is my reflection on reading skills used in my mindset.
Let us set a discussion on this background. I believe the skills unused are also to be given importance because skills required for better reading vary according to text, purpose, genre, and so forth. Although I love to read in the way I described, I have to leave room for other skills to take a part of reading comprehension. Otherwise I would end up with reading interesting novels interpreting details, main ideas and sequences, rather than appreciating the literature itself. In addition, it is evident that readers use different skills in different purposes. If I am to decode important details in a scientific journal, lower-level skills would play a significant role unless I have plenty of knowledge in the subject matter. In opposition, I would just enjoy if I am to read a short romance novel. In this case, I will use different skills than the skills in former situation. Skills seem to be unused have enough reason not to be ignored.
Second, trying different reading skills in a context facilitates reading comprehension. Referring to my case, I would have to try evaluative skills and appreciation skills in order to compensate for my lack of comprehensive comprehension. Perhaps because the main purpose of my reading is to detect details and memorize whole, I was not given ample opportunities to train those skills, whereas basic academic skills such as predicting difficult words and overall comprehension were foregrounded. However in near future I will face such problems due to deficiencies of those skills. If I am to enjoy reading, the skills I had rarely use should be given importance.
Third, the skills other than a person usually implement are not static. In other words, skills are subject to change and subject to merge with other skills as well. For instance, you will need a variety of subskills if you are to perform a higher level skill. The range of those subskills are too broad to be exclusive; that means, you will have to use almost every skill you can employ. In this regard, there is no skill can be ignored. You will eventually need all the skills if you are to read.
In sum, reading skills we are not familiar with are as important as the skills we frequently use. We will need every set of skills otherwise cannot perform a reading task flexibly whenever we face different situations. All the skills should be given importance, for the ease and enjoyment of our reading.
Third, the skills other than a person usually implement are not static. In other words, skills are subject to change and subject to merge with other skills as well. For instance, you will need a variety of subskills if you are to perform a higher level skill. The range of those subskills are too broad to be exclusive; that means, you will have to use almost every skill you can employ. In this regard, there is no skill can be ignored. You will eventually need all the skills if you are to read.
In sum, reading skills we are not familiar with are as important as the skills we frequently use. We will need every set of skills otherwise cannot perform a reading task flexibly whenever we face different situations. All the skills should be given importance, for the ease and enjoyment of our reading.
댓글 없음:
댓글 쓰기