In class, first, we talked about what kinds of reading strategies are taught. I was just taught only grammar translation and SQ3R system. Compared with me, other group members experienced variety of strategies. For example, skimming, scanning, guessing vocabularies from the context, and reading between lines. I experienced only two strategies. I thought that I should learn more and more strategies because if I have variety of reading strategies, I can adjust students’ need in the future.
During discussion, we tried to think about the question ‘what should we do in order to create background knowledge?’ I think that the best way to create background knowledge is to read materials which are written in native language. For example, if we want to understand biology, we should read material which is written in native language and connected with biology. I experienced this strategy when I studied TOEFL. I think it is very helpful and easy to do.
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