Re: Reading enhances other skills I have noticed that when students reads quietly, they understand more than when reading loudly.
When reading loudly, they tend to concentrate more on the pronunciation and intonation, but when reading silently, they concentrate more on the gist of the sentences.
Reading silently doesn't help with pronunciation though, but it does help, as tdol said, to expose them to new sentence structures, which helps them recognise how native speakers use the language.
Reading loudly helps with the fluency and pronunciation of new words.
Reading, therefore, enhances the skills of pronunciation, fluency, intonation, sentence structure, and learning new vocabulary. |