reflection on my presentation

   I gave a presentation about 7 and 8 recommendation with Mayuko and Kohei. I will write reflection about my reading skills and my presentation preparation process.

   At first, I will reflect on my reading process. When I deepen understanding of the text, I use some processes. Before reading, I surveyed the text by looking at the title page. I especially checked title, author, purpose of the text, publishing year and company. In addition, I collected background information of the text into blogger with searching the Internet. After that, I skimmed text for structure. The reason of this process is to guess the content of the text. Next, while reading, I had three processes. First one is annotating of the text. The reason of this process is to read more actively and enhance my comprehension. I marked main idea, supporting details, key words, vocabulary, and parts I can not understand. Sometimes I put some slip of paper written transition or my reflections and opinion. Second process is to make incomprehensible part clearly. It is important to know what I do not understand for diminishing incomprehensible parts. Third process is make inferences from the text. It was difficult for me because I have to guess things not written in the text. I guessed things that must be true to use my experience and knowledge. After reading, I had three processes. Firstly, I compared and contrasted ideas in the text. Secondly, I identified cause and effect relationship. Thirdly, I paraphrased the author’s idea. Finally, I summarised the text. Searching background knowledge is important before reading and while reading because background knowledge makes me attracted in to topic. Without background knowledge, I tend to think the topic that is difficult and far from me. To search background knowledge leads to deepen understanding of the text.

   Next, I would like to reflect my presentation preparation process. I researched background knowledge about our part in order to promote audience’s understanding of the text. By searching background knowledge, I can explain specific example in detail. It can be support audience’s understanding. With only information from the text, there is a risk that I misunderstand the contents because information of the text is limited and less. So it is needed to search background knowledge. I was pleased with what I did during the presentation preparation process because I came to be able to understand the contents of our group’s part. In fact, at first, for me, the text was almost enveloped by incomprehensible part. When I read the text for the first time, I had misunderstanding toward the content of text. However, while discussing with my group members, talking with Tetsuya in tutorial, I had a lot moment that I want to say “I got it!” This understanding process gave me a lot of pleasant to study. Furthermore, I was pleased with what I can teach other classmates about the content which once I was not able to understand. When I taught other classmates, I also give a moment that they want to say “I got it!” In preparation process, I toiled for a long time. For this reason, I was pleased from presentation, and can feel satisfaction.

   Throughout, I think I can do good preparation and do my best. I would like to keep this work in next presentation.