Journal Article Critique 6

Citation:

Mart, Çağrı Tuğrul. (2012). Developing Speaking Skills through Reading. International Journal of English Linguistics, 2(6), 91-96.

This article discuss how reading can improve students’ speaking skill. When we read a lot of books, journals or any written text in English, with or without we realize it, our vocabulary and grammar skill improved a lot. Vocabulary and grammar skill can improved well especially by extensive reading. When we read something in our pleasure, without burden feeling, we get more information than we read something in compulsion. We get new words and it’s meaning, we also remembering all the grammatical pattern if we read regularly.

If our vocabulary and grammar skill are improved, those skill will affect speaking skill as well. When we speak, vocabulary and grammar are important skills that we should have. Grammar is important because it helps us to make a comprehensible sentences in speaking. We can understand how language work if we pay attention on grammar, not only the word itself.

Sometime, we know what we are going to say in our mind, but we don’t know the suitable word to express our thought and that is because of the lack of vocabulary. Vocabulary also bring the confidence when we are speak and make us speak fluently because we know exactly what we are going to say in English.

In conclusion, reading can improve English speaking skill by improving vocabulary skill and grammar mastery.