G'day mate. What's new? Nothing special? For me, today I'd like to tell you one important skill that you should have when it comes to wrestling with some tough reading tests, which is your sound retention skills. What sort of skills are they? Well, let's find out.
In terms of the meaning of the word, "retention", keeping something in your memory is probably the most basic definition, right? When you're doing some reading tests that require you to fill in some blanks like what the most appropriate word or phrase it should be filled out here. Something like that. In this case, how do you deal with? Are you opening and using your word drawer whether or not you've already known. If you haven't got it in your drawer, then will you give up straightaway? To prevent you from facing this difficulty, you need to have sound retention skills.
Whether you've already got this skill or not hinges upon how often you read sophisticated English-written articles aloud a lot, which is such a critical point. Even if you've barely memorised lots of English words, it doesn't necessarily mean that you'll be able to utilise them in a practical sense. Conversely, you haven't got a plethora of English words in your memory, but you read English-written articles a lot every day. In this case, I reckon you should've been equipped with some sorts of sound retention skills. So, when you are doing some reading fill in the blanks questions, what you should do is to put each word into the blank, and then you try to subvocalise the full sentence from the beginning to the end. And, I reckon you're gonna surely feel and grasp some kinds of sounds like whether or not this sounds alright, or doesn't sound appropriate. Something like that. This is called 'Sound retention skills". This sense can only be achieved by how much you put considerable and steadfast effort into reading English-written articles aloud on a daily basis.
In doing so, you can learn not just the sense of sound retention skill but also collocation and word-choice more naturally than forcefully memorising them. So, please keep in mind the fact that these sound retention skills can't be a panacea for solving reading questions perfectly. Of course not. But nonetheless, at least it's great to have when it comes to reading skills in the long run. Keep it up mate!
Thanks for reading my blog. Talk to you soon. Chao!