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 strickvl Bilingual Tetraglot Pro Member Jordan alexstrick.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4633 days ago 27 posts - 41 votes Speaks: English*, Dutch*, Arabic (Written), Arabic (Levantine) Studies: Persian, Pashto, Dari Personal Language Map | Message 1 of 2 08 March 2015 at 11:07am | IP Logged |
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Hi,
I'm a semi-beginner in Arabic. I did a long course ages ago but am now only getting back into things and reviving my language. I'm working more and more on improving things through the use of graded readers -- in particular the Sahlawayhi series. My question, though, was whether I should read out loud or just read in my head (as if I was reading in English). When I learnt to read in English, we were always taught to read out loud, so I was wondering what the advantages/disadvantages are to either method. My pronunciation is fairly good, so that shouldn't be the reason for reading out loud I think. Any studies on this? Or just hard-learnt thoughts/lessons? Thank you in advance. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Bao Diglot Senior Member Germany tinyurl.com/pe4kqe5 Joined 5701 days ago 2256 posts - 4046 votes  Speaks: German*, English Studies: French, Spanish, Japanese, Mandarin | Message 2 of 2 08 March 2015 at 4:08pm | IP Logged |
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What about doing both?
When you read out loud and you do it well that means that you structure complex information in a way that makes it easy for a listener to understand the text without the advantages of reading him/herself, that is, being able to speed up and slow down at will, to reread passages and skip back and forth to cross-reference information or pick up back at the point where your attention faded. To me, that means the level of engagement with the text is different. When I compare reading a text once either silently or out loud, I actually remember more factual information when I read it silently but I remember more of the structure of the text, the way it was written, the way the arguments were presented when I read it out loud. I also tend to ignore details I don't understand when I read silently. That becomes even more apparent when reading in one of my weaker languages. For example, I just started reading a pop science book in French and for some reason I need to 'warm up' by reading a paragraph out loud to find my pace. If I don't do that I find myself arriving at the end of a page to realize that I have puzzled together the meaning of most of the unknown words I encountered but I don't remember what the text actually said. For English I sometimes read out loud for fun, and then I often have to realize that there are some words I don't know how to pronounce correctly because I never use them myself, or I stumble over the prosody of a phrase. But I for one can't read out loud for hours on end. I might possibly be able to mumble along to what I am reading, but that's neither here nor there, irritating for anyone in the vicinity and probably a good way to get used to bad pronunciation. So ... what about trying out both for different kinds of text to see which one works better at a given time for a given text? 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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