Week ３

1.  New things that you learnt from any of your HELP classes is that in reading class, I did the reading circle. It is that I found an article that I want to and I made a vocabluary list, comprehenshion questions and discussion quesions. I realized that to make a hand out or questions are difficult. It also takes a long time. To prepare handout for someone is hard. Teachers always prepare handout for us, so I thanks for it.  In addition, I learned one more thing. It is that a difference between paraphrase and summary. Summary is that much shorter and only includes the main idea and important ideas. On the other hand, paraphrase is alost same meaning but we use other word. Paraphrase is little difficult because I have to change and find synonyms and write in own words but I can't change meaning of the original text. That's why it is difficult. Japanese have also like paraphrase. When we write some reports, we quote someone's idea. When we use someone's idea , we also have to write own words. I think it is difficult even Japanese. However this skill is very important, so I have to practice.



2.  New things that you learnt outside of HELP is about  body ontact.  I talked with Subin about body contact. She said to me that I thought Japanese  don't like skinship( body contact) but it was wrong. Since I came to Hawaii, I realized that Japasene girls especially Kwansei students like body contact than Korean. When I heard about this I laughed because  we like it and we often touch each other.But I think it depends on person, but  Kwansei girls really like body contact. One of this reasons is that some kwansei girls graduated from girls high school and I also graduated from gils high school. When I was a high school student, we often walk hand in hand in the school and sit on a friend's kees.  However it may doesn't matter if someone graduated from girls school because some kwansei people graduated from co-education school but they like skinship. I never care about skinship, but after I heared about our skinship, I often  think about it. Exactly, we like body contact and I think it may be little unusual. However I think Korean also like body contact. I think it is very interesting to know about this . I want to know about other countries.


3 When I creat GO, I  have five steps. First of all, I read all paragragh and understand about story. Because it is helpful to understand that what is the pattern of text ( Sequense, contrast, listing and so on)  Second , I think about main idea and what is compared. It helps better understanding. Third step is that  I find signal words because the signal words helps me to find important ideas. If we know signak word, next sentence will come in\mportant ideas. Fourth step is that underline. I always  underline of supporting ideas. Also, when I find a sntense that shows different or similarity, I underline. Finally, I start to creat GO.  I draw two circles or T chart. Actually I like to use T chart. Then I write main idea and important idea that are differences or similarities. I also use some signal . For example, →　or ＊. And then I write signal words. These are my steps to creat GO.

4, There are four questions.  First question is that even though GO is suggested as a technic to understand well , GO are questioned if GO are supported by specific empirical studies.  Second question is what type of GO  is the most effective?  Third question is that research with L2 students about GO is not enough. Finally is that most sresearches show students with  training for a short time.
GO helps to better understand about text and memory of text and structure.