You have one reading skill that is rarely used in your reading, Is it necessary one?

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? .

Taking this course, I could learn about a number of pedagogical principles in teaching reading. Reading skills and strategies should be adjusted based on learner’s personality and the classroom environment, and it meant that a teacher should develop useful teaching approaches and materials for learners.

Prof. Kim instructed that the teachers should consider Bottom-up models and Top-down models in reading process for the teaching course. Especially, I was impressed on the Top-down model, because it seems difficult to realize the concept in actual classroom, even though I usually utilized this model into reading materials myself. Therefore, this journal discusses the effect of the reading skills such as skimming activity and extensive reading skills in Top-down model and why that concept is necessary.

To activate skimming activity, the classroom organizer builds the student’s schemata into the subject in pre-reading phase. For example, the learners are given a topic and relevant books, various articles, newspaper remark, and other reading materials. In here, the teacher suggests the texts’ background information before reading and ask to find out the main idea and the speaker’s characteristic. It is necessary for the leaners to discover the key ideas in short time and help to deal with a number of reading contexts.

As well as skimming activity, extensive reading skills are necessary to organize Top-down models. The extensive reading’s goal is to improve reading skills by processing a quantity of materials that can be comprehended and pleasurable. Teachers, implementing this skills, support a series of reading materials and enjoyable reading experience by making their own choice. In here, teacher can ask students to report on what they read and activate interview role play. I think that it is valuable way in Top-downs as well as improving affective atmosphere. 

Actually, however, it is somewhat a rare case to apply these all kind of reading skills to real class. When I was in high school, I almost seeked into details in a textbook in order to get answers for questions. Trying to find out correct answer, I was able to fast reading and see details provided in a passgae. It made me catch main points and get a good grade in English reading. At that time, I did not realize what I was doing when I read a textbook. However, I have no big problem in English reading in class, now. Strangely, it cause no obstacle that would stop me enjoying reading. I think classifying reading skills is not important, but knowing what type of skills fits to me is crucial. It means that dividing reading skills into several catagories, and putting them in reading process is useless. In reading, I think that the most important thing in reading is the fact that readers have fully understand in a reading material, regardless of which reading skill we use when reading. Without skills that we learned before, it may be that readers can find a topic and key words that needs to be caught in order to understand context fully.

Not all reading skills is necessary for better reading. Knowing and applying an appropriate skill in reading is recommended.