Reading is a cognitive skill, just like remembering, reasoning, holding attention, solving problems, thinking, focusing, and learning.
Reading out loud is one of the fundamental exercises to achieve Native-Like fluency in the target language because through the experience of reading you acquire many other cognitive abilities directly in the target language.
Most people only focus on reading English words correctly and getting their teacher's approval.
Try reading out loud to someone. Imagine you're creating an audiobook. You will have to give the task your focused attention. You will have to listen to yourself. You will have to make sense of what you're reading. You'll have to pay attention to your intonations. You will not be simply reading words. You will be engaged in cognitive training that will challenge your attention, memory, reasoning, and other cognitive skills in English.
Focus on developing reading fluency.
What is reading fluency? Fluency is made up of rate, accuracy, and prosody. ➡️ Here’s another way to say it: Fluency is reading the words of any text accurately, at a reasonable pace, and with expression and phrasing that sounds like talking.
You want to make sure that your reading sounds like talking. That would be the desired outcome of the reading practice.
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