DEVELOPING SPEAKING SKILLS THROUGH READING WITH NEW APPROACHES AND TECHNOLOGIES IN ENGLISH
Keywords:
reading skills, speaking skills, vocabulary knowledge, modern technologies, enhancing Speaking SkillAbstract
There is an increasingly high relationship between reading and speaking skills. There is no question that people who develop large reading vocabularies tend to develop large speaking vocabularies. Indeed, reading power relies on continuous improvement in vocabulary knowledge that provides communication. The importance of word knowledge, which facilitates speaking skills, has been a major resource in the development of reading skills. Therefore fostering improvement in word knowledge through wide reading has the potential for fostering improvement in speaking skills. This article focuses on how printed words relate to spoken words and finally how reading contributes to speech.
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