It’s said that reading helps enhance language skills and creativity, whereas watching TV does little for these abilities. This essay will discuss about the reasons and the benefit.
Imagination skill
As we all know, books use text to convey ideas and there are no images to illustrate the scenes described in a book. Therefore, we have to use our own imagination while reading. In contrast, movie heroes on TV are usually created for the viewers by producers of the film, which means watching TV substitutes the need to develop our own imagination.
Colourful vocabulary and expression
Furthermore, it’s argued that reading the best way to expand our vocabulary. The readers learn that correct spelling of words by seeing it in a book. They also grasp the meaning from the content without searching in a dictionary. Not only new vocabulary but also awesome sentence can be learnt from books. To take advantage of the benefits, most language teachers recommend reading books and newspaper. In comparison, learning new words while watching TV show is not so easy since the viewers mostly pay attention to the movement. Just we have some exceptional case. In case of non-English native speakers, watching TV with subtitle is great learning method to improve language skills because they pay attention to the subtitles and it’s kind of reading activity. New expression with real movement may print in their memory.
Comprehensive skill
It takes long time to read one book completely more than to watch on TV/film. This means that patience is required to understand the whole story and message from the author when you read a book. Nowadays, short chatting on text and SNS is common in our society. However, we still have many occasions to have to read plenty of documents in business and workplace. People, who usually don’t read books, cannot be patient to read it to the end, and just skimming some part of the documents and summarize it based on their own conjecture. You may have experiences that some people take pointless talking. Since it’s all their imagination, their talking is long and lack of logic. You realize that those people talk a lot and don’t listen others’ talking. For people who read books, it’s obvious if he/she usually read books or not based on their behaviour and actions. Patience is important life skill to communicate with others. It leads to maintenance of healthy relationship with family/friends/partners. Reading nurture patience as well.
Conclusion
In conclusion, reading is active actions to develop comprehensive skills, colourful expression, and imagination, whereas watching TV is passive actions. To sharp your ability and skills, it’s time to read some wonderful books.
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