L1 reading vs. L2 reading

Many people and reasearches said there are a relationship between reading and L2 reading. I would say I agree with that suggestion.

daily reading - the very first attempt!

I have already, believe it or not, decided to read any kind of articles regulary from next month.
as I decided it, Prof. Kim asked me to do it as an assignment so I choose one news report from ABC news quickly.

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/Vote2008/story?id=4524005&page=1

kaleidoscope

Personality
"I like to observethe patterns and structures in language"
- You are a reflector who likes to notice and think about things for yourself before acting. You probably learn best by analysing the language, and you set yourself very high standards. This is good, but don’t worry too much about being completely perfect or you’ll never open your mouth. Relax a little and focus on communication.

Motivation
"I've never been a good language learner"
- You are not motivated to learn because of your beliefs about yourself as a learner. Where do these beliefs come from? Could it be that you have depended too much on external judgments of your skills? Or that in a different learning context you might be more successful? Try to look at your beliefs and understand where they come from. A fresh start or a new way of learning might have altogether different results.

Analytical and Communicative!

those are my learning styles!; among four different styles, I got the same result on these two items.

Analytical learning style
Focus on specific problems and proceeds by means of hypothetical-deductive reasoning; object-oriented; independent; dislikes failure; prefers logical, didactic presentation.

Communicative learning style
Fairly independent; highly adaptable and flexible, responsive to facts that do not fit; prefers social learning and a communicative approach; enjoys making decisions.

and the others are:
Concrete learning style and Authority-oriented learning style.

INFJ? or INTJ?

I already took a test of MBTI one year ago. At that time, the result was INTJ.
After a year, it is changed to INFJ.

See below addresses:
INFJ : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/INFJ
INTJ : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/INTJ

interaction while reading

There are many strategies and skills of reading foreign-language texts. As I've learned so far, those skills/strategies interact each other when the learner is reading any kind of texts. In that sense, I thought about my reading habits. What skills do I use?
I concluded It depends on the type of the text and the purpose of reading. For example, when I read textbook for preparing *quiz* something, I always read along the bottom-up processing and spend all the time to understand every word, sentence, and whole paragraph and try to memorize all of them. In the case of reading for killing time, on the other hand, I usually do skimming and read in perspective to catch out the main theme and whole meaning.
And the truth is that these stratigies are often used at once.

MBTI result

Your Type is INFJ

Strength of the preferences %

Introverted 11
Intuitive 50
Feeling 38
Judging 48

INFJ type description by D.Keirsey
INFJ Career Choices by Jung Career Indicator?
INFJ type description by J. Butt and M.M. Heiss

Qualitative analysis of your type formula

You are:
slightly expressed introvert
moderately expressed intuitive personality
moderately expressed feeling personality
moderately expressed judging personality