Dear all,
Please make your posts and comments here for the week (09/30-10/06)!
Since we've done so much in class about learning strategies,
why not share with us your own thought or reflection on the issue?
Don't worry too much about your grammar and vocabulary.
What matters is the message in the post!
Wendy
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Hello~I'm Leana.I often use the buttom-up(question-answer) method when doing the reading test.I think it's a good skill.It can not only save time but remind me the key point.
ReplyDeleteI like today's "learning strategy" very much. These tips help me to do reading tests more correctly.
ReplyDeleteIn addition to the skill "G-L-G",the methods "buttom-up" and "top-down " are also useful.
If I always keep these tips in mind,I am sure that my reading will become better.
Hi,I'm Yuki. The strategy "bottom-up" I was sometimes ues it, in chinese or english test, but I don't know it has such official. And when I reorganizaed sentenses in class, I always got wrong. I really need more practice to handle the english stratefy. I hope when I finish this semester lesson, my english ability will level up.
ReplyDeleteHi,I'm jeff.The main ideas and detialed structures of articles can be learned sooner by adopting G.L.G learning strategies from this lecture. Besides, I am able to answer the exam questions quicker after using "button-up" and "top-down" tactics. I believe that I will be better if I keep particing this type of strategy.
ReplyDeleteIt is important and a thing of working hard to study English, besides there should be perseverance and willpower, still need to use the method correctly, Wendy`s interdynamic teaching style, has increased the English enjoyment to studying, hope to promote the English strength through the intensive learning process that contacts and exploring
ReplyDeletethe reading strategies are really useful for me to read articles
ReplyDeleteI used to read from the very beginning to the end,but I did not catch the ideas that the author wanted to deliver
global-local-global and central idea that the picture radiate out help me a lot
thanks
"POST"
ReplyDeleteHow well do you read?
How often do you read something? What kind of things do you read? Do you always read in the same way?
Think about these different things that you might read in the course of a typical week:
An article in a scientific journal
An economics textbook
A newspaper article
A poem
Sports results on the internet
A telephone directory
A train timetable
A novel
In each case, what information are you looking for? Do you start reading at the beginning and read every word until the end? Or do you just select the information you need and ignore the rest? Do you follow a narrative?
Different ways of reading
Clearly, each case is different. If you are reading the phone book or a train timetable, you just find the information you need as quickly as possible. It would be stupid to read the whole thing!
If you are reading a novel, you will probably be following the narrative, and you need to start at the beginning and read through to the end. If you read a poem, you will probably concentrate on each word with a lot of attention. If you a reading a textbook or an article in a journal, you will probably use both of these methods. You might read the introduction to get an idea about what the article or chapter deals with, then go through it to find the information you need.
Skimming and scanning
Two basic ways of reading are called “skimming” and “scanning”. “Skimming” is reading through something just to get an idea of its contents and argument – this is the way you might read a newspaper article, or a textbook chapter, for example. If you find it interesting or think it may be useful, you probably then look at it again in more detail. “Scanning” is the way you read a timetable or list of information like the phone book – you ignore what is not necessary and look for the specific details you need – a key word or number perhaps.
If you are aware of these different methods of reading, you can save time and make your studying more successful.
The skills I learned in the class are useful.
ReplyDeleteI persisted in reading every words and sentences in the article
because I afraid to lose any information , but it is so hard to finish and I still missed something what I should read, in other word , I lost in the article.
After the class , I will try these reading skills to help me. do my best.
I don’t know whether I will improve or not ,but at least I have a new guide.
The post is something I searched on the internet
ReplyDelete,maybe it would help everyone.
A tip for speeding up your active reading
You should learn a huge amount from your reading. If you read passively, without learning, you're wasting your time. So train your mind to learn.
Try the SQ3R technique. SQ3R stands for Survey, Question, Read, Recall and Review.
Survey
Gather the information you need to focus on the work and set goals:
Read the title to help prepare for the subject
Read the introduction or summary to see what the author thinks are the key points
Notice the boldface headings to see what the structure is
Notice any maps, graphs or charts. They are there for a purpose
Notice the reading aids, italics, bold face, questions at the end of the chapter. They are all there to help you understand and remember.
Question
Help your mind to engage and concentrate. Your mind is engaged in learning when it is actively looking for answers to questions.
Try turning the boldface headings into questions you think the section should answer.
Read
Read the first section with your questions in mind. Look for the answers, and make up new questions if necessary.
Recall
After each section, stop and think back to your questions. See if you can answer them from memory. If not, take a look back at the text. Do this as often as you need to.
Review
Once you have finished the whole chapter, go back over all the questions from all the headings. See you if can still answer them. If not, look back and refresh your memory.
See also: Taking notes, Gathering information
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ReplyDeleteI am Laura!! This week is all about listening and reading. Will we learn some skills about writing? Can I write some article to you that you can correct my article? Is there any tips for writing?
ReplyDeleteHello everyone,
ReplyDeleteI'm Carol,my majoy is Marketing.
This Tuesday is my first time to join this class.
I felt the course in this class was vivid and useful.
I learned some test skills,such as 'bottom up','G-L-G' and 'top down',all of them help a lot.
In my opinion,listening is the most important
part in learning foreign languages.
The first step in learning another language is promoting our listening ability.
We can listen to the radio(ICRT or Advanced Studio classroom...) constantly.
Whatevr,it's really great to meet everyone in this class.
Happy Mid-autumn Festival!!!
Hi! I'm kyo!I often use the "buttom-up" when I doing read test.It can let me know how to choose the question quickly.In this class, I have learned so many mothods before i didn't know.I will try to use it in my next TOEIC text and hope it can help me pass the examination easily！ Finally! I should say that my English was pretty poor!^^"
ReplyDeleteI usually use "bottoom up" to do the reading test because it can help me know what the questions are and the main point about the article quickily,so some time I don't need to read the entire article.
ReplyDeleteAbout my reading habit:
ReplyDeleteAs for reading magazines or textbook,my habit is that I usually read one article two times,the first time is just browse and then mark the vocabulary I don't know,but I try to guest what is this mean,and don't consult the dictionary(but some time I'm lazy to do that).
After finish the first reading,I can figure out the main point and the structure about this article,but don't know the the detail due to some vocabulary .So after I look up these vocabularys on the dictionary, I start to read the article again,and this time I can know more about the article and connect it to my knowledge,and I also highlight some sentences useful and take note into my small notebook,in this way,I can review this at any time
and help me increase my vocabulary.
The above is my reading habit,but I think it still has a lot for improvement,and I will try to make use of some strategies discussing in the class.
Hello,everyone.I’m Chris.
ReplyDeleteBefore the class on September 29.I also had my own method for learning English in my senior high school period. For example: watching American movies, listening to an English radio programs, etc. At first, I studied hard. Even set goals and tried to achieve them. But later, I was too lazy to keep up. I have regret for that now.
After the class on Tuesday, the three learning strategy: bottom-up, top-down and G-L-G(global-local-global) are very useful skills in the reading or listening test. It let me take a short time to finish a reading, and catch the key point easily. So I can answer the questions quickly and more correctly. I like these learning strategy than the old one. I hope I can practice it all the time, and pass the English test finally.
Hello,I am Jessica.
ReplyDeleteAS far as I am concerned,reading English novels is a good way to learn English and train your brain to stay sharp. I can't imagine my life without novels.Guessing is my favorite way whenever I encounter great difficulties in the meaning.This realy helps me to beef up my brain.
I learned some new strategies such as 'bottom up','G-L-G' and 'top down' in the first class. These can help me organize the whole topic. I think that these are really useful.
About Annie’s post, I think the skimming and scanning are good methods for reading, too. Just get some information which you really want to know, and don’t waste much time on useless paragraphs or sentences. It’s really a big help to save a lot of time.
ReplyDeleteChris ,趙中譽
So glad to have you share your wonderful opinions on the class blog! We'll have a further discussion on some of the major issues you brought up here!
ReplyDeleteNOTE: For your new posts and comments, please end them with both your English and Chinese names as Chris 中譽 did!
Wendy 張文俐
Hello,I'm Sandy. I'm CA of the Advanced English. I hope everyone will learn a lot of English skills in this class.
ReplyDeleteHello,everybody!
ReplyDeleteI think that everyone has his/her own method to learn English,and some method will work for someone and fail for others.
For me,reading English magazine,like Advanced and 常春藤解析英文,is a very good way.There are always new interesting theme in the magazines that I won't feel bored or afraid about it.
Amy,簡孜芸
About Alex's article, thanks for your information.
ReplyDeleteIt must be spend a lot of time to reading, but I think this approach will certainly be helpful for reading.
kyo 許育民
a lo ha~everyone
ReplyDeleteI want to share my thought about learning strategies. Before I learned the strategies last Tuesday. I always tried to understand the meanings of every word which I don't know in the sentences. But after first and second classes, I know that I can skim the unknown word. Just use the context to realize the word's meaning. I'm glad to learn this strategies and I hope that I can use it well.
Cindy, 宋芳儒
Hi! Welcome aboard! Glad to have you there!
ReplyDeleteThanks for the help!
Hello! I'm Maggy. Until the last Advanced English class,I never used the text book,Advanced,which included some difficult words I don't understand. therefore,I think I can make a great progress on the capability of English in this semester lesson. By the way,there occurred a funny thing,I wrote "GRE' instead of "GEPT",so that I really felt embrassed about it.
ReplyDeleteHello everyone, I'm Stanley.
ReplyDeleteFor today's learning strategy, bottom-up is a great skill, BUT it's not the skill I usually use. I tried to master this skill before and I notice that I often forgot what the question I read is saying about.Beacuse of that I need to read question again and that waste my time even more.
Therefore, I begin from the first sentence every reading test, which called Top-down skill.It's happy to know that there is a name for this skill and I can imporved this skill again.
I have stop english learnig for almost four years, I wish this class can let my english be fluent again.
By the way, I didn't get the point for G-L-G
ReplyDelete:P
hi! everybady. I am peter.
ReplyDeleteI learned from senior high school had the habit of reading Studio Classroom,but I can't understand the knack to read.So I stop reading Studio Classroom in the university. After the class on Tuesday, the three learning strategy: bottom-up, top-down and GLG(global-local-global) are very useful skills for me, and that let me begin to read. I wish I could fall in love with reading.
Thanks for Alex's article,I got a lot of good information.The SQ3R technique is useful for me. My English was pretty poor,I hope this time I can progress in English.
ReplyDeletePeter,謝漢民
Thanks for Chis's article.I think that watching America movie and listening English vedio programs on English lauguage ability is definitely helpful.
ReplyDeleteBut may need more time and sustained efforts to be able to improve English.
Jeff 張競元
Hello everyone! I'm Rex
ReplyDeleteMy English was very good when I am a senior high student,but since I graduated from junior high school.Until the class to Tuesday,I have known how to learn English effective.Just like the tips about bottom-up,top-down and GLG(global-local-global).I belive that will be useful for me.
Rex 陳宥任
Thanks for Alex's article.I got a lot of information.I think that can collocate with the tips in learning from the class in Tuesday.Maybe very helpful to me.
ReplyDeleteRex 陳宥任
hi,everyone
ReplyDeleteI'm Meggie.It's so glad to join this class and dicuss some helpful information with you.
Learning strategies I use most is "bottom-up".Beacause this method can let me know what the questions ask,I can find the answers quickly .And I don't have to read whole article.I can also save my time and get the main points correctly.
Meggie 賴婉蓉
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ReplyDeleteHi,everyone.I read China Post or FTV English news.It's difficult to know what they say,but I know what happened in the day so I can guess the meaning of news.
ReplyDeleteMy skill in English grammar is bad so I need read "New English Grammar"
Fareastern,廖昌毅
A comment from joseph's post
ReplyDeleteHe has written that we need to work hard if we want to improve something,the old words said
" No pain, No gain" .Besides, finding the correct way to exert our strength can let us get more reward than we expect we can.
Work, Work.
Stanley, 許耿豪
Thanks for everyone's tips.
ReplyDeleteI have used all metheds to reading article, but no GLG (global-local-global).
I think that it might make me reading article better than before.
Thanks once more.
Jacob 林志憲
Hi, again! I got a wrong post in the afternoon, because I forgot mentioning the week’s topic, learning strategies, and ending with my name. In this week’s class, I learned and really understood the skills, bottom-up, top-down and GLG(global-local-global), which I used but not mastered before. I hope that I could be proficient at English reading in this semester lesson and improve my English ability.
ReplyDeleteMaggy, 張郡綸
Hello everyone
ReplyDeleteI am glad to learn a new way about "G-L-G". I used to read the article for a paragraph by a paragraph, often spend a lot of time and I think I can try to use "G-L-G" way to read, I can to guess the meaning of the word, hoping to increase the speed of reading and fun.
Waiting,劉威廷
Hello! everybady. I am Janson.
ReplyDeleteI don't know how to read English article.
On Tuesday, I learn how to read English main point.
The main point is "bottom-up, top-down and GLG"
"Top-down" let me understand the article what is talk about.
"bottom-up" is mean according to the question to find the key point.
But I don't know to use "GLG"
So I think I can learn more in the class.
And I hope my English become better.
Janson 翁哲盛
Hello everyone!I'm Eleanor.
ReplyDeleteAfter I was 2nd grade in the university,I didn't read English voluntaryly.By join this class,I hope that I can find more interest in English and to push me enrich my English.And I think"learning strategies"we have learned is really useful.I will keep these in mind.
Eleanor 王盈茹
About Tabris's post, I wnat to comment.
ReplyDeleteI like to use the skill of Top-down,too. Cause I have the same problem with you. I usually forgot what the question I have read, so I need to restart again. But now I have learned the skill of Top-down, I think that is really useful to me.
Cindy, 宋芳儒
Hello everyone! I am Kai.
ReplyDeleteI have not contacted English for a long time. So when I join this class, I Find some difficulties in reading. But the method to teach in the classroom is really helpful for me to read. I will continue making great efforts to go down.
Kai 楊凱成
Hello ,i'm ranson
ReplyDeletethis week we learn something about how to read an article clearly in breif time. I really accept that the skills we learned such as "bottom-up","top-down" and "G-L-G" is a good way for us to read the article and anwser the question. However ,i still doubt whether it is also usefull in reading science paper.I tried to use "G-L-G" when i study paper,but i still have to take more than two hours, Ha~
Hello~
ReplyDeleteI'm William~
This is my last year in University, I'm glad that I have the opportunity to attend the class.
Teacher spoke English more than Chinese, I think this really help us. Even through it might be a little too difficult for some of us, but I'm sure we'll get used to it. I have learn some good reading trategies during class, and I think it's quite important to keep practicing beside class time. I have some tips that I think it's useful for English learners, study English everyday is better than just focus on 'someday'. Even it's only for 15~20mins. Personal suggestion. Hope it'll help~
William 丘建賢
Hi,everyone. About Annie’s post, I think that are good methods of "skimming" and "scanning". These methods can really avoid not important information and quick find we need.But it is important as the article describes that different ways of reading.
ReplyDeleteThanks for Annie and Alexs' post ,you boarden my sight in reading a journal .i use the skill we learned to understand your post because your posts are really long . So, thanks for your opinion agian and i'll try it . Maybe i will try SQ3R technique to read you post next time.
ReplyDeleteRanson 叡呈
Hello everyone! I am Wing.
ReplyDeleteThis week we get many useful learning strategies, they can be used both on listening and reading.
On reading part, the most impressive strategy for me is global-local-global. Because it can be connected with my learning experience in senior high school. At that time, my English teacher always required us to write down an outline of every article we read, but we only use several words and simple pictures to make the outline. That really help me to understand what the article want to tell us and learn to build a complete structure of an article . Just like "global-local-global" mention that we have to catch the main idea of the whole article and then try to find the supporting opinion and back to the main idea at the end of the article. I think that combine these two strategies will let us get the main point of articles faster.
On listening part, I think lecture note taking is very important. No matter we try to buttom-up or top-down, we have to catch the main point of these saying sentence first. So I try to write down the key words of every sentence in my practice and hope it will work.
I will try to use these strategies on my learning, and learn from you and share my personal experence with you. Through this way, we can improve our English ability together.
Wing, 劉怡君
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ReplyDeletehello,I'm Rita.
ReplyDeleteFirst,i want to say that I fell gratitude to the teacher,because before this class i didn't know the "strategies"about reading and listening.When i got an article,I couldn't get the skills for analyzing the structure,all I could do was just looked through the full essay without effyciency.
I think G-L-G is the most important concept , it helps all the readers finding out the composition and get the theme right away.Then we can use"bottom-up" or"top-down",depending on your own habit.As for me,"top-down"is the better choice,since I'm not used to look the questions before looking the article.Finally,learning to draw some "inferences" is also quite significant,it let us had real understanding of the article so that we can answer the questions easily.
Rita 曾思蒨
Hi everyone, I'm Clair.
ReplyDeleteAfter reading all comment.
I find most of people feel this course is very useful,either am I. When the First time I listened the homework is such a lot,I feel a little worry.I'm afraid my English is not good to face the coming course. But I realize teather want us to practice our English skill more often.I used to dislike writing English article,but now I must to do ,so I will do. I clearly know only try to do can help myself. I dicided to use those strategies to make my studying more efficiently.I believe all I have learned from the class may help me promote my English.
Hello everyone,I am Vicky.
ReplyDeleteThis week read advanced that how to train your brain to stay sharp.I have a long time not to read English,but this week I feel it has little funny.
vicky,李安翔
Hi, to Meggie's post
ReplyDelete"Bottom-up" strategy really help us during the test. Beside the test, I think we should also learn and think what will these strategy help us in our daily life.
William 丘建賢
Hi, everyone. I'm Christina.
ReplyDeleteIt's been a long time since last class.
Until now I still remember the most clearly one of the reading strategies is "up-down". Because this skill is the one I use the most in every exam. But in the class I also learned something new for me. I will try those to challenge next examination!
Christina 宛霖
I think the skill "buttom up" is very useful.
ReplyDeleteEspecially in test or exam.
We've been trained to read fast in order to finish the test in time.
So,after scanning the question,it will be easier and faster to answer the question.
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ReplyDeleteAbout Alex's post:
ReplyDeleteThank you for sharing the skills.
I think I have to try read -recall- review more often.I always read but don't think to much after reading it.
It's a great skill to understand what the article is talking about.
Hi,I'm Amy.
ReplyDeleteFirst,I want to supply some points that I forgot to mention in the last post.In the last class,we practiced the reading skills:"top-down" and "bottom-up".These two tips are very helpful,especially for the English exams.
Second,I want to comment to Chris's post.I have a similar experience with you!I used to study English very hard when I was a senior high school student.I memorized vocabulary from a dictionary,and I always stayed in the "a" area just because that I didn't have enough patient.
So,I think that learning English needs some really helpful methods!
Amy, 簡孜芸
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Putnam cites studies of children who ran around for 15 to 45 minutes before class and cut their ants-in-the-pants behavior by half when they got to class. As with most exercise, the effects were relatively lasting -- smoothing out behavior two to four hours after the exercise.
Putnam also points to some preliminary animal research that suggests that exercise can cause new stem cells to grow, refreshing the brain and other body parts. According to Ratey, exercise also stimulates nerve growth factors. "I call it Miracle-Gro for the brain," he says.
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Hello everyone, I am Wing.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Chris and Jessica mentioned that through watching English movies and reading English novels will help us training our English ability. It let us learning English in a easy way, and more connective with our life. We can learn English not only on textbook but also in our entertainments.
Wing 劉怡君
After I read the information from Alex.
ReplyDeleteI have the same thought. Because I always use just my eyes to read, and I think that's enough.
But it seems that I should change my habit. Using the eyes and brain at the same time when I'm reading!
Christina 吳宛霖
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ReplyDeleteI've found an article about reading skils,I post part of it :
ReplyDelete~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Basic Reading Skills
• Following Directions
• Vocabulary-in Context-Discussion-Dictionary Reference
• Locating Facts and Answers
• Sentence Meaning
• Major Topics-General
• Minor Topics-Specific
• Main Idea and Topic Sentence-First, Last, or Middle of Paragraph
• Details
• Signal Words
Adverbs-Where? When? How?
Conjunction-Adds Ideas- and, besides, moreover
Contrasts- yet, however, but, otherwise, unless
Gives Pairs of Ideas-either-or, both-and, not only-but also
Gives Results- thus, therefore, hence
Explains, Gives Examples-that is, for example, for instance, such as
Shows Cause or Purpose- because, since, for, in order that
Compares- like, as
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
I think the last tip"singal word" is useful,and hope it'll be helpful.
Hi everyone!
ReplyDeleteI'm Stephen.
I have to say I really like the way learning english in this class ,it's nice to learning with you guys.
I'm glad to learn new strategy this week.
I've used this strategy in most of english reading tests ,and it usually helped me with finishing the test in time everytime.
Hope we can learn more useful strategies in this class.
Stephen 王信夫
I also find an article "How to improve your English skills" via internet.
ReplyDeleteI share it with everybody.
:IMPROVE YOUR ENGLISH READING SKILLS
Make a habit of reading regularly. Read as many English books, newspapers and magazines as you can find. Again this should be fun so make sure the texts you choose are not too difficult for you. If the book or article you are reading is a chore, then find something easier. You could even try reading graded books written especially for ESL learners.
Find an author you like and read all their books. By doing this you will get used to the style of a particular author and the typical vocabulary and grammar they use. As you read more of his/her books you will find it easier and easier.
If you have a local library, find out if they stock English books or if they have bilingual editions of English classics. Or ask them to stock English translations of books you are already familiar with.
Try reading things more than once. Read something and then read it again a few weeks/months later. You should find your understanding has improved.
Discuss what you have read. I am more than happy to discuss books with you on the forum.
!Learning Tip - don't try to understand every word. Try to understand the overall meaning of a sentence or passage.
!Learning Tip - don't translate - only use a dictionary if a word keeps appearing in a text and you still don't understand it.
IMPROVE YOUR ENGLISH WRITING SKILLS
Get the most out of your dictionary by understanding how to use it well. You can use your dictionary to find words, for meaning, for pronunciation, to check your spelling and to understand explanations.
Copy out short passages of English text from newspapers, magazines or books.
Try dictation exercises. You can do this online or get friends to read out text for you to write and then check your writing - concentrate on spelling and punctuation.
There are many forums on the net, find one about your interests or hobbies. Apologize if you think you have made any mistakes and politely ask for feedback.
Find English speaking pen friends
so on ...Because the article is too long ,so I post some of it.
Clair,李玥瑩
Hello, everyone! I'm Clement.
ReplyDeleteI learnrd a new method to learn language and read English, since I join this class. "G-L-G" help me to read and quick to know well article main point. I believe that I can learn more things from this class. I will be work hard.
Clement, 林庭瑋
I have poor ability in English, so I feel afraid of this class. But I'm so happy that I can do study with you all. Give me a hend, please. Elliot 陳偉超
ReplyDeleteHi ,about William's post..
ReplyDeleteI think your suggestion is a good way to learn english and other languages ,it improves reading ability in deed ,however it's not easy to attain for me. Maybe that's the reason why I haven't improve my english reading and writting ability since high school.
I think I should trying to read english article every day ,even just for few minute.
Thanks for you suggestion.
Stephen 王信夫
Hi, everyone. I'm Jack.
ReplyDeleteAfter the days of Tuesday.I will know three point of learning english that bottom-up, top-down and GLG(global-local-global). These point help me were easy to learn english well.
Jack 蘇仕傑
I have same idea about fay6662 said. "buttom up" is realy useful for the examination, but in other reading in English I think Annie says pretty good. I like the example most.
ReplyDeleteJamie 黃家瑩
Hello everybody, I am Jeffreyc.
ReplyDeleteWe got a lot of learning strategies from classroom, for example buttom-up, top-down and lecture note taking on listening and buttom-up, top-down, G-L-G and inference on reading.
So I want to talk about some little learning strategies on listening to English songs. I like to listen to English songs since I was a little boy. I just listening again and again, through this way I try to understand what the song want to say. As times gone by, I still could not understand it completely, so I try to reading lyric. After this process, those unfamiliar words will be impressed on my mind so I can learn more and more vocabulary from it.
I think it is a happy way to learn English from habit.
Jeffreyc 陳庭筠
Hi! I am Howard. About the “Learning Strategies”, keep reading and listening daily is the best way to learning that I think. We should form the habits of studying English every day and be sustained. And our English capability can progress in the future. Besides, the skill of “G. L. G.” that teacher taught is very helpful to reading.
ReplyDeleteHoward 吳朗岳
About Eleanor's post. Since I entered University, I've got rid of English books. So I do want to find more interest in English, too. Elliot 陳偉超
ReplyDeleteHello everybody, I am Jeffreyc.
ReplyDeleteI agree with the article "How to improve your English skills" which be posted by Clair. It mentioned that we have to make a habit of reading regularly. I think it's very important that make learning English to be a habit because we have to create an environment to let us stay in English then reading may be a good choice.
Jeffreyc 陳庭筠
About Rita’s article, I think it is very useful for us to reading and writing. I hope I can use the skill and practice more at a later date. Thank you for your sharing.
ReplyDeleteHoward 吳朗岳
Hellow,I'm Claptop.
ReplyDeleteAbout my learning strategies,I always listen the English song or watch HBO.
If I have more time,I would read English literary or see the English web.
When I study English at first,I would skim it.
And then I would think what did it want to say,I would mark where I didn't understand,then I would look up.
And read second time,I would write down or memorize the good sentences or grammer.
I have gone to the teacher's class two weeks.
When teacher said the "GLG" first,I did't understand what did teacher want to convey,even teacher use GLG to study English.
Now I know a little "GLG"
I think my English will be better and better!!
Clapton 高毓斌
Thank you for alex's information.Your information let me know how to learn english and how to grow up ability of english.
ReplyDeleteJack 蘇仕傑
About Jeffreyc's post:
ReplyDeleteHis idea is same with me.
We always want to do something that we like again and again.
So maybe listening English song will help our English better.
Because we want to know what did he sing or what did that mean.
And then we can sing the song easily and better
About the teacher teached the learning strategies,I think it need to get some tip and then we will study English easily!!!
Clapton 高毓斌
Thanks for Clair's post "How to improve your English skills"
ReplyDeleteIt's really helpful!!
Acturally I had ever bought the "Twilight" after seeing that movie. I think it's a good and motive way to learn English.
After reading everyone's tips in learning English. I find out lots of interesting methods to learn English well.
Carol,張靜茹
About alex's post. let me know a lot of information. I can try to do it. I hope that useful for us.
ReplyDeleteClement, 林庭瑋
hello everyone.
ReplyDeleteActually,I don't like reading books,even comic books. So,when it comes to "learning strategy",I used to watch movies on english movie channels like many people do. But it seems not so efficient. I think that's because I did not use a learning strategy when reading,listening,or watch anything about english. So,l would like to learn how to do these things easier with everyone in the class. Let's 加油.
Tobey,莊俊宏
Hi,everybody. I'm Vivian.
ReplyDeleteIn the class I haved learned some useful skills for reading.
We could take apart the article for opening,body and closing, then we view it with "G-L-G way".
Find the topic sentence and keywords helps us get the point.
When we take the exam, using two ways: bottom-up and top-down would help us to answer the guestions.
Hi,I'm Vivian.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Rita's post.
You list the points in line clearly !
And let us know so many good ways to analyse article.
Using those tips when reading will be easy and fun.
Vivian, 許雅筑
Hello I'm David.
ReplyDeletein the class I understand G-L-G help me know the main point.I know I will learn more things from this class.
David 毛運韡
Hi, I am Lena. Wendy's class really help me a lot of things about reading skills! Although I feel a little bit hard for me, I will still try my best to catch up the other students! Thanks a lot!
ReplyDeleteLena 楊雅迪
Hi, everyone!
ReplyDeleteI'm Lena! I usually skim the paragraph first! Then I will marking the vocabulary that I don't know. The third time I will figure out the words mean, then read the whole article.
I think that as much as the vocabulary you know, you will be easier to read, so I really want to train myself to increase the quantity of my vocabulary.
I really look forward to the weekly Advanced English class. I hope I will be progress in this semester! Yeah~
Hi!!I'm Standley.
ReplyDeleteI learned a lots from this class,including G-L-G
buttom-up and top-down,i haven't heard that before.Besides,taking this class makes me so happy,because i haven't studied or read Englishfor a long time!!
Standley,賀祥
haha!
ReplyDeleteI really like the skill of "bottom-up". When I was a senior high school student, I use this a lot. I like to look the questions first, and read the text. Sometimes I may misunderstand the main point. If I can see the questions fist I can find the answers at the some time. I can save a lot of time when in the test. If I don't have the stress of time, I would like to use the skill of "up-down". Looking the text became a way of get some new informations. In different situation I might use different ways.
Laura 黃旭瑩
"This is a comment about Jeffreyc’s post."
ReplyDeleteAfter reading your post, I greatly agree to your suggestions, except that someone can learn English well by listening to English songs, because I have heard that it’s useless to let a person who doesn’t real master in English just listen to English, therefore, this English strategy is a little bit confusing to me.
In my experience, when I enjoy a English song, I always just enjoy the melody only, and always ignore the words of the songs spontaneously.
As the result of this reasons, it is not a good ideal for me, a person who doesn’t real master in English, to learn English by listening to English songs.
Maggy,張郡綸
RESPOND TO 阿永
ReplyDeleteHis reading skill is as same as me when I read the English magazine such as Advanced, Ivy and ect. I won't use this when I read papers which is some pro articles. At this time vocabulary is not the most important thing. I just need to understand the meaning of the article.
Laura 黃旭瑩
Hi,I'm Clair again.
ReplyDeleteAfter reading Alex's post,I think the "SQ3R" technique is very useful.Actually,I used to reading article,not learning.My English is still not well althought I often reading English paper.Sometimes I looked up dictionary at once when I met a vocabulary which I don't know.But I spent less time on reviewing them.So I still can't remember any vocabulary.It do waste me a lot of time. Now,I will try to use "3R" to let me read article more efficiently.But I feel "Question" is the most important.Just like the article say "Question help your mind to engage and concentrate,Your mind is engaged in learning when it is actively looking for answers to questions." By Question,we may make a guess,try to think and pay more attention on reading.It's the moment we are really in learning.That's what I want.I believe if I follow the rule,my English will promote apparently.
Clair 李玥瑩
Hello everyone, I am Cindy.
ReplyDeleteIn the first class, I learned about some reading skills and I find that when I am taking a test, I usually use "bottom-up" strategy. I will look the questions first and go back to the artical to find the answers if the artical is long. However, I donot consider myself a good guesser.
For me, when I am reading some outside reading, I always want to have some steps. First, I will read it through and mark the vocabulary I do not know then look them up in the dictionary at one time. And the last one is try my best to remember to vocabulary while reading the artical again. In this way, I can understand the artical's main idea and easily know how the vocabulary are been used. Nevertheless, if I confront a long artical, sometimes I just check the words while reading. And I know that is really not good for me to learn English.
I hope that I can use the strategy that taught in the class in my English learning.
Cindy, 陳韻絜
Hi, I’m Shelley.
ReplyDeleteAccording to the paragraph from 阿永 , I agree the post about his learning habits.
Many people usually to check the new vocabularys from dictionary as they read, including me, because we want to know the true meaning from the article immediately , but it’s not a good idea for our reading.
Just as 阿永 said, he often figured out the structure of the article without dictionary in his first reading, then he wrote down these unfamiliar words into his notebook in the second reading. I think it’s a good way to elevate our thinking ability.A number of vocabulary have different and even far apart meaning,it's impossible to recognize any word. For example, the word “deposit”, in the economics’ terminology, it means that we put the money in the bank ; but in the material science terminology, it means a fabrication about a thin layer coated on the substance, like chips and electronic devices etc. When we encounter this situation, all we have to do is “Guest Only”. You can search the clues from the context between sentence and paragraph ,or you can dabble at any kind of research highlights to develop your knowledge in peacetime,it can provide you more information as you read.
Reference: from 阿永, October 3, 2009 10:07 PM
Shelley 林姿瑩
Hello everyone,My name is Don.
ReplyDeleteWhen I was a high school student.I used to read English newspaper to improve my English reading ability.But at that time, I don’t know any reading tips such as GLG
or others.I just read from beginning to end,word by word.So I’m happy that this class teach me a lot of small tips to improve my reading and I think I can speed up my reading by using these!
According to Alex's post, I think of my math teacher. When we were preparing the exam for entering a university, he always told us to look the catalog first and know a concept about what we are going to read. And then start to study, after we finish a chapter, we should close the books and recall what we just have read. If we can recite or write down in our words, that means we really understand and memorize them.
ReplyDeleteI feel that what my teacher said is similar to the "SQ3R" strategy. Thus, I agree with SQ3R and I think it is apply to all use.
Cindy, 陳韻絜
After reading 阿永's paragraph,I found that it is a good example for us to imitate. Because we don't have a godd habbit in reading,so we are not able to do it efficiently. thus,if we follow the way 阿永 always does,we can improve our ability in reading
ReplyDeleteTobey,莊俊宏
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ReplyDeleteAfter reading all of the comments above, some of you share his/her own methods of learning English. For example, watching forign movies, listening to the English radio or music and reading English magazines or newspaper. Besides, there are some skills such as skimming and scanning and SQ3R. These are very useful for learning English.
ReplyDeleteBut you should pay attention to one thing. Do not just post the methods the teacher taught in class, you should share your own learning strategies. Hope you can do better next time.
CA,Sandy
A comment for william
ReplyDeleteI agree Teacher spoke English more than Chinese, that is a little difficult but it’s help us listening a lot. Another important is keep practicing beside class time.
Fareastern,廖昌毅