I will explain how I study the reading English skill.
I read newspaper, sometimes. When I read one article, I can see many unknown vocabularies. I highlight them first, and I read the article to ignore them. After I read the article, I often do not understand what the article said. So, I read it again. After that I check the vocabularies which I highlighted while I read. I explain the meanings of them in English somehow or other because my main dictionary is an "English-Japanese" one. After I checked all of the vocabularies, I read the article, again. In this time, I can understand what the main idea of the article is. Then, I try to write a short sentence that mentions what the main idea is.
But, in the TOEFL reading section, I do not the same as the above because the time is limited. So, I try to understand what the main idea of the article is, first. This is the opposite way.
Anyway, I write a boring blog now. So, I stop writing.
im impressed by how you study!! i think im going to try to study as you do from now on :)
ReplyDeleteIt takes much time, but you can do the same way as me if you want.
ReplyDeleteI think you are working really hard to study Koji. Studies have shown that if you are able to paraphrase (this means to restate an idea in different words) and summarize readings, you are at a high level of English proficiency. Keep going!
ReplyDeleteI appreciate that you post a comment about my reading journal. I try to read at least one article, check unknown vocabularies, and write the summary. If I did only one object, for example, only read an article, it just wastes time for me. I try to combine 3 works at the same time. It takes much time, around 2 hours, but the works help me improve my English skill. Anyway, thank you for your tenderly comment, Brandon!
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