I am entering my last year this fall and I am intending on taking a reading course like STA496 (Readings in Statistics). I have completed the prerequisites (minimum grade of 4.0 in 1 FCE of over 300+ in a STA course) but I am not sure how the course works exactly.
I'm in the middle of applying for UWO's Computer Science MSc. program and the Reading Courses caught my attention. Are these, hence the name, intended for researchers to be able to do reading in lieu of taking lectures? I have encountered courses with a similar structure
The first step in reading is obviously vision. This is a very complicated topic so I won't cover it, but understand that the eyes and the lower areas of the visual cortex of the brain take what you see in the world and identify lines and areas of contiguous color and other low level cues. These low level cues are useful for identifying all ...
Interesting... our readings courses are courses where the professor makes a list of readings, or journal articles, centering around one specific topic for the semester (e.g., false recollection). Each week we are responsible for having read usually 3 journal articles and be ready to …
This is great advice - writing texts alongside reading in order to reinforce the knowledge you have gained from reading.
TDLR: study some grammar first , start with comics or easy books and progress to teen novels and then adult novels so you aren't overwhelmed. Look up words as often as you're willing to and don't forget to practice listening skills, even if you don't want to speak it'll help with remembering vocab.
Please don't try translating to actually learn. Most bilingual people aren't good translators. You should enter a completely different mindset when you speak another language and translation hinders more than it helps.
Input can come from listening, as well, but listening is at a much higher speed and you typically won't pick up case declensions and other important features of grammar and vocabulary. Reading has worked for me in German, and I am finally at the Turkish level as to where I can read, so we will see how it goes there.
Though if you disregard writing, speaking and listening and only focus on reading you can achieve reading fluency very quickly.
Though if you disregard writing, speaking and listening and only focus on reading you can achieve reading fluency very quickly. Not only is translation a poor idea, but the way to get really good at speaking, writing, and listening is actually through reading.
It's very effective, especially when it's the right level or you already know the story well, but I'd recommend using the audiobooks at the same time. Reading just makes you good at reading. You should be practicing listening from the start.
It's frightening! Not only that, but on a literary level, it's also written like a horror novel. Think about it.
I was listening to an employee and some random customer at a Barnes and Nobles. They mentioned a series I had read so I stepped forward to recommend the lightbringer series (which is an amazing dark political fantasy book by Brent Weeks). Anyways, about 10 minutes later customer comes back to grab the book.
Speed reading experts claim that they can work around this problem by taking in more visual information in each saccade. Instead of reading a couple words in one fixation, you can process multiple lines at a time.
Claims that you can read a book as fast as you can flip through a phone book are completely impossible on anatomical and neurological levels. First we have anatomical reasons to throw out absurdly high reading rates. In order to read, the eye has to stop at a part of the text, this is called fixation.
If the evidence suggests that reading faster may be possible, albeit more modestly, it casts a much harsher light on certain speed reading dogma. The most dangerous is the idea that subvocalization should be avoided to read faster.
Speed reading may possibly make you a faster reader, but it’s not clear the speed reading techniques are the cause. Second, speed reading trainees tended to read faster, with less comprehension, than non-speed readers.
There seems to be some mild evidence here in favor of speed reading. One study of a course had some students quadruple their speed.
Here the evidence is clear: subvocalization is necessary to read well. Even expert speed readers do it, they just do it a bit faster than untrained people do.
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