USE OF TEXT READING TO DEVELOP SPEAKING SKILLS
Keywords:
English, teaching, learning, goal, focusingAbstract
This article focuses on how vocabulary wealth relate to spoken words and finally how reading contributes to speech. The importance of vocabulary, which facilitates speaking skills, has been a major resource in the development of reading skills. Therefore, providing improvement in word knowledge through wide reading has the potential for providing improvement in speaking skills.
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