Student Hate Reading Summary

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1) I can understand and relate to the authors' point of views indicated on the two articles, How to Make Student Hate Reading and What is Academic Reading, when it was pointed out that the phrase "academic reading" intimidates us. To be honest, When I think of academic reading my mind directly goes to thinking about vocabulary quizzes, and stupid discussion questions and hard exams. I hate reading. At my home country, we did not use to read books for fun, teachers made us memorize them word by word. In exams, our answers were supposed to be "quoted" from the book, however, we can not use the book and most of the questions if not all require us to write long responses. I think that had a huge impact on me as a reader. Until now I have never ever enjoyed a book before and I do not think that I will in the future.I feel that the readers of my blog already got the answer for the question given on the top, "how does such a perspective of academics harm a student’s progress and prevent them from giving his/her full effort?" …show more content…

I used to do that, but not as much. Now I will pay more attention to that. It explained the idea of critical thinking and it gave me some tips on how to write a well-developed essay. 3) Chapter one of the book Drive and the article "The Significance of Grit" brought the idea that Intrinsic motivation, in another word grit, is long term motivator. It allows people to be creative and productive. However, when teachers ignore the students' feelings about what they are reading or interested in, their intrinsic motivation will get wasted and lost. Students will start to get lazy and in some cases, they would cheat for the sake of good grades. This was addressed in the article "How Teachers Make Children Hate Reading". 4) Teachers should not give a lot of assignments and vocab quizzes every time students read something so then students would not hate reading

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