What have you identified as the key ideas, arguments, perspectives of the author(s)?
Adams (2016) provides her lived experiences of writing by her hands, then laptop to claim that our bodies must learn to make writing a habit – what we do without having to think about it (p. 485). Also, when we read, our perceptual body already apprehends a word’s meaning before we are able to mouth it (p. 493). Adams finds out that although technology such as autocorrect or spell-check functions may enhance our writing, we also need to learn to ignore its interruption and distraction to our flow of writing. (p. 490)
Smith (2006) states that according to German philosophical tradition, “Hermeneutics” is life-philosophy and its interest is understanding (p.
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As far as my experience of studying languages, we can apply this fact to make our language study more effective. For example, I feel that my Japanese ability was not good when I was in Japan, it only became better when I started working in a Japanese company in Vietnam. This is because when in Japan, I put pressure on myself to master Japanese, so I forced myself study a lot and think carefully when using Japanese to make sure it is correct way to say or write. Therefore, I was lack of confidence and for me, having a conversation or writing an e-mail in Japanese was like going through an oral or writing test at school, I could not feel my “sense” when using Japanese. However, since I started working, although in Vietnam, every day I had to communicate and write the reports to my Japanese bosses, and it required me to use Japanese without thinking much because my bosses did not have time to wait for me looking at the books to review grammar or vocabulary. It was stressful in the beginning but gradually, I felt much comfortable when using Japanese and I realized that Japanese ability became my “habit”. Therefore, in order to be fluent in a language, we should rather “live” with the language than “study” the language.
What, if anything, in the reading calls for more clarity?
Smith (2006) points