Learning Reflection

 Dear, Teacher Usa Noitim.

      This blog is the last blog for this semester of the Discourse Approach in Reading. I surely tell you that I had a lot of skills and strategies for reading. It can help very much in the future about how to read, how to analyze, or how to use an appropriate word. So, this is what I got from this course.

What was I learning about A Discourse Approach in Reading course?
      As I told you about what I learn from the blog I had written, I had studied many lessons for this course.
      First, I learned “Recount” It helps me to know how to tell the stories, events, or series that what
happened. Second, I learned “Narrative”. For this lesson, it can help me better to understand the stories that I read for each paragraph and it can help me to read the book better that I can, It really useful. Third, I learned about “Descriptive”. The teacher taught me about how to describe things, person, place, or animal in English. Fourth, I studied “Procedure”. This lesson was told me how to do or how to make something, it was very interesting for me. Fifth, I learn about “Comparison and Contrast”. This lesson showed the pattern that presents similarities between two or more things, differences between two or more things. I made me known how to read things and analyze it about what is the difference in the texts. Sixth, I learned about “Cause and effect”. It made me know what the cause is and what an effect in the text is. Seventh, I learned about “Definition and classification”. This lesson helps me how to know the meaning of the technical term. Next, I learned about “Exemplification” that is adding the more information of the word and the last lesson that I learned was “Problem and Solution” that is a pattern of organization where information in a passage is expressed as a dilemma or concerning issue (a problem) and something that was, can be, or should be done to remedy this issue (solution or attempted solution). I think every lesson that I learn, it could help me very much in daily life or in the future because if you do not know how to read something or how to use the lesson that the teacher taught. We couldn’t read something as well as you could. So, if you try to practice every day or concentrate on learning about this lesson, you could read the text as well and you can improve yourself better that you are. That were I got in this class, “Discourse Approach in Reading course”
What did I find the easy things, while I was studying A Discourse Approach in Reading?
      I think I really like about the discourse marker because they can help me very much to understand about what type of the text is. I think I believe that this course can help me to think about something in common sense as well.

What did I find the difficult things, while I was studying A Discourse Approach in Reading?
      
      One thing that always disturbed me to learn about this course is “I don’t know many vocabularies as much”. It could make me confused sometimes when I found the difficult word in the passage.

How did I solve these problems?

      But I can solve this problem by searching that word from the online dictionary. Anyway, I should more be reading, more practicing, and more remembering the word because I think about my future to be a teacher or knowing something new. If I know many words, I could learn faster. I really believe it.

How do I bring the knowledge of this course to use in my daily life?

      As I told you about what I’d got in this course, I can bring the knowledge to use in my every daily life about in English or Thai because this course makes me how to know about common sense in reading or pronouncing the text. I can adapt the knowledge to the conversation to the foreigner. And I can write the text in English better than I was because I know about the discourse markers and connector words. It can help me very much.

What is my attitude toward this course?
      About my attitude for this course, I think that I really like this course because it can help me to improve my skill in English very much. I was worried about this course in the first class that I studied. But when I learn about this course and continued practice to read and analyze the text that in the handout of each lesson, I was rethinking about it and I have got much knowledge about this course very much. So, I have to say “Thank you so much teacher” for taught me a lot and do not be afraid to educate your students at all. This is may the last time that I have studied with you because I know about your retirement, this is so sad when I know about this for every time I had heard. But I surely believe that you will stay in my heart forever as the best teacher. I will keep everything about your teaching and use it for the future forever.

THANK YOU SO MUCH, TEACHER

Problem and Solution Continues

      On Monday 7th May, I continued learned about “Problem and Solution” from last week.
For this week, we studied little because the teacher assigned the homework from last week already. The teacher gave us the corrective feedback and also asked us our homework. Some friends didn’t do that homework yet so she told to that students to get out of the room to complete the homework and sentence explaining the main idea of the passage then create a problem and solution, graphic organizer.” The teacher was also told some friends to write the title, main idea, and graphic organizer on the whiteboard.
come bake to the class. Then, th
e teacher gave us the corrective feedback about exercise1. It was about “read each passage, write the title, and

      After that, the teacher continued gave us the corrective feedback about the exercise2. After that, the teacher told us for a break in 10 minutes and when we came in, we were going to watch many cooking videos from our friends.

      From my group, I had a group with Wirapat, we had cooked the Spicy chicken burrito with Stir-fried Chinese morning glory.

      On this week, I think I can learn this lesson so easily because I like to analyze the problem and find the solution. But I had found many difficult in the handout. So, I can solve this problem by searching that word from the dictionary and asking for my friends about the difficult words.

      Finally, I really like the class and enjoy with my friends and teacher very much.

Problem and Solution

          On Monday 24th April, we started to learn the new lesson about “Problem and Solution”.
 At first, the teacher opened some words from the Cambridge Dictionary Online for us to pronounce such as:
- problem  (n.) /ˈprɒb.ləm/ = a situation, person, or thing that needs attention and needs to be dealt with or solved
- solve (v.) /sɒlv/ = to find an answer to a problem

      Next, the teacher gave us the handout about the problem and solution and she told us to read in the first page. That was about the purpose of problem and solution. So, it’s a pattern of the organization where information in a passage is expressed as a dilemma or concerning issue (a problem) and
something that was, can be, or should be done to remedy this issue (solution or attempted solution).
      After that, the teacher told us to read the example in the handout and taught us about how to find the problem and a solution passages in the text and she explained us about the markers.

      Next, we did the skill practice in the handout. That was about “circle the Problem Markers and highlight the Solution Markers then write either Problem or Solution in the margin next to the relevant information”.
      I spent a long time to do this practice. After we did it finished, the teacher gave us the corrective feedback and then the teacher continued told us to do the exercise 1 that was ”Read the passages, wrote the title, and the sentence explaining the main idea of the passage then created a problem and solution, graphic organizer”.

      After that, the teacher asked us for the answer about the practice and gave us the corrective feedback of the first text. Finally, the teacher told us to do the other texts for homework.
      For this week, I think I can do the practice in the text as well because I really like to analyze things such as the problem or solution. Furthermore, I had learned about the Discourse Markers of the Problem and Solution in this week. I can do many activities for easily from now on! Because I think that this lesson always uses in daily life.

    I felt good for this week very much.

Exemplification

      On Monday 10th April, we started to learn the lesson about “Exemplification”. After that, she told m
e to check the answers of the text 2 from the last week together explained about species of whales so divided into toothed and baleen in the text. Then, she gave us the corrective feedback.
      After that, the teacher gave us the exemplification handout and told us to read about the purpose of exemplification. And then, the teacher explained us about “commonly used abbreviations and transitions in exemplification text.

      Next, the teacher told us to do the text that was about read the text and complete the diagram then highlight the exemplification markers. After that, she gave us the corrective feedback.

      After that, the teacher told us to do the text 2, 3, and 4. These three texts have about answered the questions correctly. Anyway, in the text 3, these were many difficult words such as:
      Jeopardize (v.) /ˈdʒep.ə.daɪz/ = to put something such as a plan or system in danger of being harmed or damaged
      Hazard (n.) /ˈhæz.əd/ = something that is dangerous and likely to cause damage
      Eliminate (v.) /iˈlɪm.ɪ.neɪt/ = to remove or take away someone or something
      Finally, we were watching the cooking video of our friends.

      I think that the abbreviation and transitions in exemplification text might be difficult for me because I rarely use it in daily life. But, I will solve this problem by reading many texts. I believe I can do it better in the future.

      I felt great and enjoy for this week very much.

Definition and Classification

      Monday 3rd April, I started to learn the new lesson about “definition and classification”. Before we started to learn, the teacher told us about the scores of our mid-term test. So, I got seventeen. I think it was not enough for me but I’ll improve myself more than this. First, the teacher started to explain about definition and classification. Then, she told us to read definition and classification on the projector.

      Next, she taught us about many discourse markers of definition and classification. I think it will help me to find the meaning of the unknown word in the text in the future by finding the discourse markers of definition in the text such as is, i.e., comma, etc.
      After that, she explained us about strategies of definition and classification. She told us to do the skill practice 1 and 2. So she gave us the corrective feedback about this activity. There were many words of this practice such as:
     
Distinguish (v.) /dɪˈstɪŋ.ɡwɪʃ/ = to notice or understand the difference between two things, or to make one person or thing seem different from another
     Psychologist (n.) /saɪˈkɒl.ə.dʒɪst/ = someone who studies the human mind and human emotions and behavior, and how different situations have an effect on people
     Intrinsic (adj.) /ɪnˈtrɪn.zɪk/ = being an extremely important and basic characteristic of a person or thing
      Next, the teacher told us to write more meaning about the words on the white board in front of the class and we continued did the skill practice 3 in the handout. So, the teacher read the text 1 “What is Anthropology?” for us. She told us to read again and answer the questions that follow to pronounce them correctly.

      After that, the teacher told us to talk about the main idea of the text. We answer that was “the last sentence is the main idea: anthropology is to learn how man has developed into his present condition and what potentialities are for future”. Then, the teacher gave us the corrective feedback for us and she finally assigned us to read the text 2 for homework.

      I think I know about this lesson not much. But the teacher taught me for easy, so I can learn and did many activities for this lesson easily. Even I found many difficult words in the practice. I can solve these problems by searching the word from the dictionary or asking my friends about it.

      I felt very happy for this class.

Cause and Effect

            On Monday 20th March, we started to learn the new lesson about “Cause and Effect”. First, the teacher gave us the new handout. Then, she explained about cause and effect and she opened the video of the fourth year student that was about how to cook the food.

      Next, the teacher assigned us to do “practice” and “skill practice 1” in the handout because of she had to go to the inauguration. When she came back to the classroom, she began to explain us about cause and effect. Then, she read text example and practice for us. After that, she explained discourse markers of “cause and effect” and taught us how to pronounce words in this lesson correctly such as:

      Cause (n.) /kɔːz/ = the reason why something, especially something bad, happens
      Effect (n.) /ɪˈfekt/ = the result of a particular influence
      Affect  (v.) /əˈfekt/ =  to have an influence on someone or something, or to cause a change in someone or something

       After that, the teacher gave us the corrective feedback of skill practice 1 and she told us to do “skill practice 2” in the handout. Next, she told us to read “The effect of stress” and answer questions below the text. After we did it finished, she gave us the corrective feedback.

   
For this lesson, I think the effect of stress activity was difficult for me because of I found many difficult words in the text. But, I solved this problem by finding the words on my smartphone, asking my friend, and guessing the meaning of them. It challenging for me.

      I felt enjoy about this class.

"Procedure continues" and “Comparison and Contrast

      On Monday 6th March, I continued studied about “Procedure”. The teacher started to read the text 3 in the handout that was about how to use a toaster. The exercise 2 was “what is the brand of this
product?” The exercise 3 was “identify if the statements below are true (T) or false (F).” and the last one was “complete each of the following sentences with the informati
on from the instructions.”

      Next, we were continued to the next lesson “Comparison and Contrast”. The teacher told us to open the first page of this handout. It was about the purpose, types of procedural texts, text organization, and language features. Next, she told the students to compare between two topics “The high context culture student and the low context” in the example 1.

      After that, the teacher told us to read the text 1 and text 2. Both of them were about the subway airline and the Hurricane. When we finished read that text, the teacher was assign the work from page 38, the topic was about Men and Women: Do They Speak the Same Language?  And do the activities.

      I think that this lesson “Comparison and Contrast" was easy for me because I felt when can choose the best word for compare thing as well.

      I felt great for this week very much.

Procedure

      On Monday 20th February, the teacher told us to talk with our friends about “the foods that I had ever cooked”.  We talk about this topic for a while and the teacher opened the PowerPoint that was the healthy diet. Then, the teacher told us about her past in Sydney and Australia. She told that she cooked a lot in there by herself. And she assigned the work for us to make the video about cooked the food and explain how to cook from the video.

      Next, she opened the cooking video of “Jamie Oliver” that he was cooking “the perfect omelet”. So, the teacher assigned us to listen and watch this video carefully and write words or sentences that we hear. After we watched it finished, she asked us about words or sentences that we hear. So, we could tell many words and sentences.
      Next, she opened the cooking video of the perfect omelet by Jamie Oliver. We listened and watched that video carefully and wrote the words from the video. After that, she told us about the words that we heard and opened other videos from Youtube.

      After that, the teacher gave us the “Procedure” handout and told us to look at page 29. The teacher explained about “How to make a banana shake” in the handout. After that, she told us to do the activities in the handout. It was about “Match each sentence with the correct picture and then put all sentences in the correct order and “Read the recipe about Chicken soup and answer the questions that follow”. After we finished did that activities, she told us to the test 1. We prepared our chairs and started to do the test 1.

      I think this week was difficult for me because the time for the test was short for me. But I’m find because I think that It was challenged for me.

      I felt a bit nervous about the score for this week!

“Descriptive” continued

      On Monday 6th February, this was the sixth week that we learn. So, we continued learned about descriptive from last week. The teacher told us to talk about what did we learn from last week?

      So, we talk about the komodo in the handout. The teacher explained the story and told us to do the activities in the handout. , the activity A was “Answer the questions based on the text.” And activity B was “Match the word with the correct meaning.” After we did it finished, she gave us the corrective feedback.

      Next, the teacher told us to read Budapest in the text 2. After we finished read the topic, I answer the questions that below in the text. After that, she gave us the corrective feedback.

And we read the text 3, “Prague”. She also told us to do the activity below this text too gave us the corrective feedback.

      Next, the teacher told us to read the text 4 and do the activities in this text and she told us to make a group. So, my group got the topic “Place” and we had to describe the place that we were interesting “Sanam Chandra Palace”. We wrote for 15 minutes from this activity picked someone up to present the text that we wrote.

      Finally, the teacher explained the purpose of this lesson. So, it’s “to describe and reveal a particular person’ place, or thing”.

      I think the activity from text 4 was easy to me. So, I used skimming, scanning, and finding references to comprehend the texts.

"Narrative continues" and "Descriptive"

      On Monday 30th January, I continued learned about “Narrative” from yesterday. She asked Ger to tell about the summary of the short story “Secret” in front of the class. After that, the teacher explained about Narrative. There are so many types of narrative such as mysteries, science fiction, fairy stories, etc.
      Next activity, the teacher told the students to make a group of five people to discussing the story’s symbol in a Secret short story. It had 4 symbols; the eggs, the well, the photos, Kylie’s cutting of the photo. And each group were represented by the symbol in front of the class.
      This is about my group were discussed:
- The eggs refer to something valuable of her mind. Because she wanted to take care the eggs. So, she didn’t get from this family.

-  The well refers to the seeking/ love compassion from the family. So, she climbed down to the dangerous area.
-  The photos refer to her memories in childhood because she had a warm family.

- Kylie’s cutting of the photo refers to threw herself out of this family.

      Next, we were started to learn about “Descriptive”. I think this lesson would learn about the description to anything or anyone. Before we learn this lesson, the teacher was opened the pictures and told us to describe each picture. We have described the type of the animal, appearance, and diet.

      First, she opened green darner dragonfly:

 - The type of the animal: Insect

- Appearance: 4 wings, small body, and it looks like the jet plane.

- Diet: dew and grasses.

      Next picture was the ant:

- The type of the animal: Insect

- Appearance: long legs, small body, orange color, two eyes, big abdomen and head, antenna, and mandible.

- Diet: sugar or sweet, and food.

      And the last was komodo, the teacher told us to describe for this picture together in the group:

Appearance: long and forked tongue, fat body and long tail, four big legs, rough skin, gray color, and it looks like crocodile combine with the snake.

Habitat: it lives on the ground and in the water, a lot of trees, and humidity places. It always lives alone.

Diet: fishes, insects, plants, animals, chicken, meat.

      Next, the teacher gave us about the descriptive handout and drew the diagram. Then she added the information onto the diagram and told us to do it for the homework.
      I think this lesson was easy to me because I really like about describe things.
      I was fine about this week because it was easy.

Narrative continues

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On Sunday 29th January, I continued studied about "Narrative" from the last week. Today is the makeup class because of the Monday 13th was the holiday.

After the teacher came into the class and checked the name already, she told us to talk about the story that we read in the last week with friends. Then, the teacher explained about the story (Secret) in part 1. After that, she told us to made a group of 4 peoples and completed the summary of part 1 by adding 3 fairly short sentences.

We brainstormed and discussed the idea of the story in the group, after that she told us to choose the represents of each group to read the sum-up in front of the class.

Next, the teacher continued explained the story in the second part. After she finished read about the story, she told us to do the activity C the was "Put the sentences in the right order to produce a summary of the second part of the story".

Next, I did the activity "D" in the handout. It was "Choose one of the verbs, and then complete each sentence". Then, I and my friends read the sentences to share our opinions in the group.

 After that, Next, I did the activity "E" that was "What do I feel about the story? Talk about it with a partner". After that, the teacher told us to choose the three things that most important in this story to wrote in the small paper and sent to her. So, the most themes of this story are neglect, problems associated with contemporary family life, and children's right.

Next, we looked on page 13 that we had ever done at the first time we learn about this course. So, we crossed it again follow the story that we had to learn before in the story.

I think The exercise C was easy for me because this exercise was just summary what we read about the story.

In this class, I always found many difficult words, I solve this problem by searching these words by my online dictionary.

Finally, I felt very interested in this day because of this lesson we learned about Kylie was interesting.

"Recount continues" and "Narrative"

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      On Monday 23rd January, I continued learned about recount and narrative from the last week. Today was the makeup class because of the Monday 13th was a holiday. The teacher was a bit tired, she told us she was didn't rest on her conference vacation.

      Next, After the teacher checked our names. She would like us to talk with friends about "what did I do on weekend?". So, I told my friends that I went to the volunteer camp at Banhuaibong school. I did a lot of activities. I painted the English and Thai letter on the ground and BBL. It was very good activities.

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      After that, the teacher gave us the collective feedback in the hand out that she assigned in the last week. It was the exercise 3 that was "An Excursion to the Botanic Gardens".

Next, It was the exercise 4 that had two texts. Then, the teacher gave the corrective feedback and read the texts for us to understood the texts. She gave us the corrective feedback again about the factual recount. It was the news report about 'The arresting if Vietnamese who was stealing'.
Then, we read the texts that was the police report about "Investigation report" and the teacher told us to make a group and summarized the texts. After that, one of each group were represent the story that they summarized in front of the class. Then, she told us to answer the questions and gave the corrective feedback to us. This activity, the teacher searched some words the were difficult such as : > irresponsible (adj.) /ˌɪr.ɪˈspɒn.sə.bəl/ = not thinking enough or not worrying about the possible results of what you do
> cunning (adj.) /ˈkʌn.ɪŋ/ = Cunning people are clever at planning something so that they get what they want, especially by tricking other people, or things that are cleverly made for a particular purpose
> dishonest (adj.) /dɪˈsɒn.ɪst/ = not honest

     After that, the teacher gave us the handout that  was "Narrative". She explained about narrative and told us that she would taught us by using the activities to bring us to the lesson. It was a story named "Secrets" by Tim Winton. So, she told us to  do the activity that was "Put a cross in the line in the circle, at an appropriate point, to show how you felt as a child" the scale goes from 0(not at all) - 6(very much). After that, she asked us "What is this story?". So, it made me to predict the story that we were going to read after this. About me I think this story was told about the story of childhood that was about he/she had something that he/she didn't told to the parents. At the end of the class, the teacher assigned us to read the stories part 1 and part 2 for homework.

I think the exercise 3 and 4 were quite easy for me because I could do it correctly.

I found some words that I didn't know about the meaning but I solve this problem by using the website diction and asking my friends.

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This week, I felt good about this period.

Recount

On Monday 16th January, this is the second periods that we learned about 'Recount' lesson.
     After I came to the class, I  shocked that the air conditioner didn't work. So, the teacher told us to opened the windows and took a break for a while to wait the technician came to fix the air conditioner. It finally works again and then we continued to learn about recount lesson.
      First, the teacher told us to read the example about news of sport in the handout. It had three topics of this news including "Text organization, News's title, and Language features".
      Then, the teacher explained about three topics and after that, she told us to analyze the relation of the text organization, story, and language features.

      Next, she told us to underline the specific word in the news that was about the hockey competition in the final round between Gerringong and Warilla.
       Then, she told us to do the exercise 1 that was about analyzing the text that was about the personal recount.
      During that time, the maid came into the room and told the teacher to turn off the light because the technician came and fixed the air conditioner again. So, we wait until the problem was resolved and the maid came in again to told us that everything was ok and we can use the air conditioner too. It made me felt good but inside of the room was still hot. So, we opened the windows and continued to learn again.

      Then, the teacher continued explained about recount lesson and then she told us to find "What is Toraja" and she opened The Toraja on the website. Then, she told us to read the text in exercise 2 that was "My Grandpa's Funeral in Toraja".
During we were read the text, the teacher searched the words that we didn't know about the meaning such as:

> orientation (n.) /ˌɔːr.i.enˈteɪ.ʃən/ = the particular things that a person prefers, believes, thinks, or usually does.
> sandalwood (n.) /ˈsæn.dəl.wʊd/ = the hard light-coloured wood of a tree that grows in Southeast Asia and Australia, or the pleasant-smelling oil from this tree.
> corpse (n.) /kɔːps/ = a dead body, usually of a person.
> slaughter (n.) /ˈslɔː.tər/ = the killing of animals for meat.

After we were finished about reading, I answered the questions. Then, the teacher gave us the corrective feedback. And she taught us to wrote the dialog from two phases.

At the end of the class, the teacher told us to do another exercise for the homework and she told us to write the recount about the past experience that was interesting into my weblog.

I think the exercise 1 was quite easy for me because it had the example and I could do that as well.

I found some words that I haven't seen before. So, I solved this problem by using the online dictionary and asking my friends about the words.

I used the text organization and Language features to analyze the texts.

I feel a bit confused and tried for this period.

HOMEWORK :

My volunteer to Ban Thumhin Border Patrol Police School.

      In last weekend, I went to "the Ban Thumhin Border Patrol Police School" in Suan Phueng at Ratchaburi with my friends. At school, There is a lot of cute children and the weather was cold. I felt very good.

      We arrived there around 11 a.m. and prepared everything for making the activities with children on Sunday. In the evening, we cooked the foods for the children around 30 persons. It was so fun to make many activities with my friends.
 
       On Sunday, me and my friends volunteered to help the caravan to made and prepared many games for children. After that, we gave the foods, rice, water, snacks, and the presents to the children.

      In the evening, we went back to Nakhon Pathom Rajabhat University. I felt very very to do this activities and I wonder to go there again.

Course Introduction

      On Monday 9th January this is the first day of the second semester with Dr.Usa Noytim. She's the same teacher that we learned with him in English Reading Strategy.
After she checked the member in this class, she was explained about this course. She talked about What is the discourse marker? , What we able to do if we finish in this course? , What did you do on the last vacation? Then, we started to talk about we did they do on the last vacation in two minutes.
Next, She gave us the course outline and worksheet. After that, we did the three activities in that worksheet. First, It's about read the text and matched the words in the texts. Second, read and completed the sentences in the paragraph and the last is about rewrote the sentences by using the connectors. I know many vocabularies in this activity that the teacher was searched. It's about the words that we can't pronounce such as:
>Polygyny (n.) /pəˈlɪdʒ.ɪ.ni/ = the practice of having more than one wife or permanent female sexual partner at the same time.
>Pharmacological (adj.) /ˌfɑː.mə.kəˈlɒdʒ.ɪ.kəl/ = relating to treatment that uses drugs.
>Cardiovascular (adj.) /ˌkɑː.di.əʊˈvæs.kjə.lər/ = relating to the heart and blood vessels (= tubes that carry blood around the body).
>Respiratory (adj.) /rɪˈspɪr.ə.tər.i/ = relating to breathing.
>Category (n.) /ˈkæt.ə.ɡri/ = (in a system for dividing things according to appearance, quality, etc.) a type or a group of things having some features that are the same.
>Classification (n.) /ˌklæs.ɪ.fɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/ = the act or process of dividing things into groups according to their type.
>Procedure (n.) /prəˈsiː.dʒər/ = a set of actions that is the official or accepted way of doing something.

In this course, I think It was easy for me about match the words with the correct genres of the text.

I use past tense in this class to talked about what I did in the last vacation.

I think this week was not difficult for me, and I'm so much relaxed because I met and talked me friends again in the new semester.