Comments on: Is reading important to improving writing?

By: Yamini

Yamini — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 11:37:33 +0000

Reading is significant if one has to improve one’s command over the language. It helps in building a strong vocabulary. I have seen that people who read a lot, can speak with ease. Writing is altogether a different skill set. While writing we have to formal in our communication. Writing is far tough than reading, because one has to master the rules of grammar.

By: tessie

tessie — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 23:20:52 +0000

I used to give lmy Thai EFl students lots of writing assignments without providing them enough reading sources and the result was a disaster. People cant write well enough without ample reading because they haven’t surveyed what the others have said about that topic. An individual cant generate complex intuition by themselves without interacting with the others. Just like a child can’t learn a human language if he/she has no aural/verbal input from the other human.

By: tessie

tessie — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 23:20:35 +0000

I used to give lmy Thai EFl students lots of writing assignments without providing them enough reading sources and the result was a disaster. People cant write well enough without ample reading because they haven’t surveyed what the others have siad about that topic. An individual cant generate complex intuition by themselves without interacting with the others. Just like a child can’t learn a human language if he/she has no aural/verbal input from the other human.

By: nasser kamel mohammed ali

nasser kamel mohammed ali — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 15:22:46 +0000

Listening,Rrading and Writing are the three sides which form the languge triangle. so every side is linked to the other one. In my openion ,more reading inrich us by new vocabulary,grammers,sentences and so on. To improve your skills in writing you should be good at reading, because it is like any system equation ,reading as an input and writing is the output.
Reading is not ony for english books but it is imoprtant to read magazines,news papers,stories and so on.
Finally i would like to say that we can make reading not only as asource of improving our ability of writing but also as ahabiit.

By: Talaat Abd Al zaher Eid

Talaat Abd Al zaher Eid — Fri, 25 May 2007 12:46:45 +0000

I believe that reading and writing are linked together and can’t be separated. If we need to develop any of them, we have to develop the other. Reading can help me in improving my speaking skills more e.g in presentations, meetings, negotiations and conferences. While writing can help me in communicating through the internet or between my colleagues at work e.g in documents and letters.
From my experience as an English student, I could say that on reading one can acquire new vocabulary and structure that could not help him in writing only but even in grammar. That’s why practicing reading ,in my point of view, could create a difference for english learners around the world whatever their level or their mother language is.