ARTICLE RESPONSE FORM

Extensive reading is a type of reading for advance level. It doesn't try to get the meaning of a long text, but rather the meaning of its context. We can do it by re-reading the text for several times, taking note on important points, and then making a response.
Here is the example of response form of a research article.

ARTICLE RESPONSE FORM

Article title          : College Students’ Use of Affective and Social Language Learning   Strategies: A Classroom-Based Research.

Author                 : Marites B. Querol

Publisher              : Time Taylor International (Philippine ESL Journal, Vol.5)

Date published    : July 2010

Genre                   : Research article

Why did you decide to read this article?

Because I wanted to know more about language learning strategies, especially Affective Language Learning Strategies (ALLS) and Social Language Learning Strategies (SLLS), which might be able to be implemented in the classroom. I was also curious whether or not these strategies were used by the college students in Philippine and how the relationship between these two.

Were you glad that you decided to read it? Explain.

Yes, I was. After reading it, I got new knowledge that there were some strategies in learning a language that were very helpful in understanding the material better.  These strategies were very important for the successful of language learning.

What did you like best about this article?

This article provided tables as research findings which helped the readers to understand the given information more. The results were also completed with explanation and description so the information could be really convincing.

What did you like least?

The researcher didn’t give further explanation and example about the relationship between ALLS and SLLS, so the information seemed didn’t complete yet.

Would you recommend this article to a friend? Explain.

Yes, I would.  As I stated before that this article gave me new information about language learning strategies, as students majoring in English, these were essential to increase our comprehension of the language we learned. I hoped that this article would also help my friend both in processing new information and performing task.

On a scale of 1-10, how difficult was this article for you?

I thought the difficulty degree was 5 - intermediate. It was because although there were some unfamiliar words, but overall I could still understand this article.

And here is the summary...

SUMMARY

                 In learning a language, every learner used learning strategies to process the given information and do the tasks. This made some researchers conducted a study to investigate the use of Language Learning Strategies (LLS) among the students. Most of these studies were based on the idea that language was mean of communication in which the speaker and listener understood each other. Oxford (1990) divided the strategies into two; direct strategies consisting of memory strategies, cognitive strategies and compensation strategies, and indirect strategies which covered metacognitive strategies, affective strategies and social strategies. Current research result showed that the collaboration of two or more strategies would result better in learning. Furthermore, LLS was not only used in language learning, but also in science and technology. However, among these strategies, Affective Language Learning Strategies (ALLS), which focused on the learners’ feeling, and Social Language Learning Strategies (SLLS), which related to the social relationship with others, were less used. This became the basic reason on why this research was conducted. The researcher wanted to find out whether or not ALLS and SLLS were used by the college students in Philippine and the relationship between the two strategies. By using descriptive design, researcher observed 24 English college students of private university in Philippine and gave them questionnaires as the research instrument. Later on, the gathered data would be analyzed using descriptive statistic and Pearson correlation. The result showed that the students answered the given questionnaires in varied ways, but it could be concluded that both ALLS and SLLS were actually used by the students. But because every student had his/her own perspectives and preferences, so the strategies used were also different. The data also showed that there was a correlation between ALLS and SLLS as they expected to be observed as one. Since these strategies were still not optimized by the students, it was recommended to be integrated as part of the language skills. Learning strategy helped the learners to succeed on their language learning if it was used effectively. It could be done by training the students in using these strategies and also by popularizing them.