Reading was the most interesting part of ESL 828. There were eleven reading articles during this semester. Those articles were very interesting because they were about other people's experiences. I learned how to be an active reader in this class. It just likes a movie’s preview. For being an active reader, before I read I have to look around the title, pictures, and captions, first and last sentence. It helped me to create a “big picture” of the article that made me understand articles more easily. I also improved my vocabulary by reading articles, because there were a lot of new words in those articles. I not only improved my vocabulary, but I also learned something form some author’s experience. I very much enjoyed reading the article-A New Dawn. It was about a young Cuban Lester Moreno Perez’s escape story. Even though I didn’t agree with Lester’s decisions, but I still learned something from him, about a person who wants to succeed they have to be persistent. That’s what I learned from the article and how I improved by the reading.