R E A D I N G T A S K 1
From the six myths, what is the most powerful myth of
reading that you feel you have in your self ? After I read the article about “Six Reading Myths”
above, I can not lie my self, because
from the six of
those myths, I can feel two of them. For
example, I have to read every word to understand or catch the meaning, and if I
skim or read too rapidly my comprehension will drop. I can realize that, even
sometimes I just ignore those problem without think what will happen to me if
it through come to me and there is no any fixing from my own style. But if I
should choose between those problem, I will take second problem, because almost
students college especially for English study program, we can read fast, but
unfortunately, this way is really hard and also difficult for us to find the
meaning in a paragraph, so we must read slowly while catching the ideas. I can
take the conclusion from this situation, in my level I should read much every
day, even 15 minutes a day only. I have a friend, let say really close friend,
his name is Romly, he said, read before sleep is really helpful to increase or
improve our reading speed, that’s definitely different with me, if I read by
that way, I can guaranty I will get sleepy faster at the time.
SQ3R
is really fantastic method for students college, exactly for English study
program, because by this way, I am sure we will get the ideas easier than when
we read once only, except if you are a genius person and have high quality
brain like specialist saint. In this modern area, I think it will be easier to
do this method in reading, because almost of us have a laptop or notebook to
help us when we do the method. For example when we have to reread a paragraph,
we shouldn’t move a paper to recall the information, we can underline, making
notes correctly from our laptop or computer. After we reread, underline, and
making notes in our margin, so we can recite aloud, because it will help us to
recall our brain about the information before, I really curious with this
method, maybe I have to try it when read an article or story and something like
that, perhaps this way can improve our reading comprehension individually. And
this is our mission in our future when we teach our students, so we must be
able to apply it to them in learning process, especially for when we teach reading, perhaps. So
before it will happen and become our dream, we have to applicate it to our
adaily first, because if we wanna have someone to do something, let we start
from our self, and don’t ever be like boss when they ask to their member or
servant.
After I read the story from “Harvard
Report” I can’t breathe for 10 seconds, because my mind like go to that place
at the time when they take the test. As though I take the test with them too,
but if there is a question “do you think someday you could read fast and
selectively as the story above ?”, maybe nobody ready to answer that question
directly. Fortunately we are from muslim side, so I can answer it like this “
if our god said let it be so it can come true at the time” but unfortunately
from academic side, we can’t block it by random words, because our answer
should be scientific answer and don’t bring our religion in learning process.
We are human, if we try something hard possible, usually if we keep study hard
and keep pray to our god, nothing impossible. We should know our capacity as a natural
human, for me, I can’t say I can or I can’t do that someday, But we have to try
everything that can help us to improve our ability especially for reading
skill.
If we talking about textbook for reading, so we should
answer it by honest and we must be able to serve the title of them, in my home,
I have a lot of kind of book, for instance: story book, saints, book about how
to build a comfortable farm or garden, but it all in Indonesian language. When
we took reading 1 in second semester,
we got a book from our lecturer, and in that book, really much story about
something in narrative version, and also like diary someone. By the time I can
use Reading Comprehension’s book to read in my bedroom, sometimes in my living
room, but almost all page I kill them in my private room with a glass of tea
beside me. I usual read that book when I did not have a lot of task, for
example when I feel bore with my task, I can find funny story from that book,
that’s why I really love it and keep it clean and safe, because that’s the
first book that I get from our lecturer.
Based
on my lecture’s opinion in Elicos class, his name is Mr. Ryan “fast or slow it
can’t prove that true or false”, I always remember with this sentence, so far
my reading speed still in normal level, in the text above I have created honest
answer, if I read fast, I can’t analyze the idea correctly, I have to reread
the text at least twice or three times, so I can get the main topic from the
article. When I read, I can’t force my brain to get balance with my eyes, I
don’t know why. But I ever try read while close my mouth and I can read faster
than instead. But unfortunately I can’t change my mind. I stay in my slow
reading. In my personal opinion, only some people that can do reading fast or
that person has a brilliant brain let say genius person, I have an example, I
have a lecturer, he is really smart, I can say he is smartest lecturer in my
campus, and sometimes another lecturer amazed to him, even he still junior
lecturer his ability almost balance with senior lecturer. Back to the topic, actually I
don’t have any
particular strategy to increase my reading speed.
To answer this question, we have to
know about environment first, but in reading circumstate. I define environment as
everything arround us, for example, our partner, our family and also our
friends. But if we try to combine with reading, so it means everything arround
us guest to be about reading, reading, and reading. If we are talking about
reading environment, at least we should know how many often we read a day
first, for instance I read 15 minutes a day, before or after I take a rest when
I get home from college. In this case I don’t have any environment seting in
reading, I don’t know exactly about reading environment, but, I just wanna
conclude it, reading environment means similar with our frequent time in
reading, we don’t need to create a special wheater to force our mood to read
something, it come from our heart desire, sometimes we are really lazy to do
something (read) we just kill the time by did something that we like. For
example play game, cook noodles, drink a glass of tea behind our home with our
family and etc.
